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August 1, 2016
The Sex Dimension
The 2023 film How to Have Sex follows three sixteen-year-old girls on their first holiday abroad together, intent on a bender of drink, dancing, poolside…
Schooling Myself
I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday.
The Velvet Ditch
“Happy hour at the City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi is where the whole hip world would spend Thursday night if the Nazis won the war,”…
Little-known fact: Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize-winning Irish novelist, poet and playwright, was also a prolific standardized-test writer. What follows is a selection of SAT questions from his archive.
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