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Past articles by Juliet:

The Metamorphosis: A Tax Season Transformation

As Greg Samuels awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a limited liability company. He was lying on his ... → Read More

A whopping bad word

Why must writers insert the word “whopping” before every number? → Read More

“Utilize” is the worst word in the English language

There are many bad words in English, but only one worst word. That word is utilize. Although I would never defend it on aural grounds, the way it rolls off the tongue — or rather does not roll off the tongue — is not its chief problem. What's truly offensive about utilize is that it is useless. Utilize means "to make use of," of course. I wonder what else means that. Oh, right: Use.… → Read More

Destination Reading –

When the weather’s bad it’s easy to justify doing next to nothing all weekend long. If it’s cold out and especially if it’s raining, who really wants to go to a bar or to a museum? Sure bars and… → Read More

The Key to Nell Zink's Subversive Satire

Nicotine, the author’s third novel, is a humorous meditation on how people balance their public and private selves. → Read More

I Love Serial Entertainment And So Can You

by Juliet Lapidos A friend who works in the movie business was ranting about the popularity of television and waxing nostalgic about the seventies, when h… → Read More

I Love Serial Entertainment And So Can You

We don’t binge on television because we like it, we like television because we can binge on it. → Read More

I Love Serial Entertainment And So Can You

by Juliet LapidosPhoto: Jason RogersA friend who works in the movie business was ranting about the popularity of television and waxing nostalgic about the seventies, when his preferred medium was culturally ascendant. When I asked him why he thought ... → Read More

Patricia Arquette and the Motherhood Gap

Women with children are paid less, on average, relative to men than women without children. → Read More

‘Marijuana Can Be Helpful,’ Admits Surgeon General

Unlike many in the Obama administration, Dr. Vivek Murthy accepts at least some of the science on marijuana. → Read More

Wait, What, I’m a Millennial?

Neither digital-world natives nor victims of the Great Recession, the children of the early ’80s deserve a different label. → Read More

The Sony Hack and the Gender Pay Gap

Female stars were paid less than their male counterparts. → Read More

Most Gay Men Still Excluded From Giving Blood

Under the F.D.A.’s new policy, any man who has had sex with another man in the last year may not donate. → Read More

Dick Cheney Makes a Great Case for Prosecuting Torturers

In an interview on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, former vice president Dick Cheney basically taunted ambitious lawyers at the Hague to come after him. The host of the show, Chuck Todd, read details from the Senate report on “enhanced interrogation” and asked Mr. Cheney if he thought they amounted to torture. Rectal feeding? Keeping a man in a coffin-sized box? Handcuffing another man’s wrists to… → Read More

Chris Christie: Selling Out Local Pigs for Iowa Pig Farmers

The governor doesn’t like a bi-partisan bill that would ban gestation crates for pregnant sows. → Read More

Finish That Book!

You suffer when you quit a story midway through—and so does literature. → Read More

Finish That Book!

You suffer when you quit a story midway through—and so does literature. → Read More

When Did Sexy Halloween Costumes Become a Thing? The 1970s.

Despite agitations to the contrary, this year’s Halloween will likely be marked, as in Halloweens past, by women dressing up in “sexy” costumes. But when did this trend get its start? In 2010, Juliet Lapidos tried to find out. The article is reprinted below: Should the Explainer dress as a... → Read More

When Are Metafictional Games a Mask For Laziness?

The complex literary stylings of Ben Lerner are as stunning as ever. → Read More

Readers Respond to the Editorial Series on Marijuana

Among Times commenters there’s a virtual consensus: The federal ban makes no sense. → Read More