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In Praise of Fake Reviews

By Tom SleeOctober 29, 2014
Yelp's self-interest, rather than any objective set of criteria, is what determines a "real" review.
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The New Kid

By Corey EastwoodSeptember 18, 2014
Joseph Harms’s debut novel of high school depravity Baal is trying too hard in all the right ways
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Some of This Actually Happened

By Tim BarkerFebruary 4, 2014
American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street, in and out of history
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Return to Sender

By Michael AndrewsJanuary 30, 2014
When gay communist Didier Eribon came out of the closet, it wasn't as a man gay or a communist. The French sociologist came out as working-class
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Little Boxes on a Hillside

By Amanda ShapiroJanuary 10, 2014
Better-designed cities will make people happier — those who get to live in them, at least
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