Love It or Leave It
Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Til Death Do Us Part?
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Is the Big Apple rotten?
Read “The Death of a Once Great City” by Kevin Baker
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Upstate machinery.
Read “The Albany Handshake” by Christopher Ketcham
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“Meanwhile, he adds in great measure to the hilarity of the town.”
Read “Portrait of a Mayor-At-Large” by Henry F. Pringle
A Win for the City of Brotherly Love
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“For every fall is to the headline-writers the greatest in the history of football, and there is nothing to indicate that this year will prove an exception to the rule.”
Read “Football on the Wane?” by John Roberts Tunis
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Larry L. King on playing for the love of the game.
Read “Roughing It in the Football Bushes” by Larry L. King
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On Trump’s fumbles.
Read “Political Football” by Kevin Baker
Love Conquers All
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Edna O’Brien’s portrait of the artist as a young man: “To have an inkling of anyone else’s ascension-descension into love is nearly impossible, but to understand James Joyce’s is dazzling, daunting, metamorphosing, and imponderable.”
Read “Joyce & Nora” by Edna O’Brien
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On following your heart despite genetic risks.
Read “Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease” by Krithika Varagur
[ M A R C H • 2 0 2 2 ]
Agnes Callard attempts to break free without breaking up.
Read “The Eros Monster” by Agnes Callard
No Love Lost
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“Who has not seen dozens of unions, especially among educated people of the middle-classes, break down in disappointment and ache, if not in hatred and recrimination, because the partners to the union had entered it with the understanding that the relation between them was self-sufficing, self-sustaining, an end in itself—that is, upon the principle of William Morris that Love, capitalized, is enough?”
Read “Is Love Enough?” by Ludwig Lewisohn
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“An interesting commentary on the submerging effect of marriage on women is afforded by the numerous instances in which wives separated by death or otherwise from their husbands have blossomed suddenly into happy, capable, useful individuals.”
Read “The Chaos of Modern Marriage” by Beatrice M. Hinkle
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“It’s not news that all sorts of supposedly fun activities—going to the gym, playing video games, maintaining a social-media presence—have grown harder to distinguish from work. But dating, Weigel would have you understand, is among the worst. Its dissatisfactions are similar to those involved in many a job: a vast investment of time, effort, and emotion for inadequate reward; a lot of responsibility and not much power; and a setup that feels rigged against you.”
Read “Game Theories” by Lidija Haas