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Caleb Crain: “Like poetry and pornography, slang is easier to recognize than to define. Most of it is disapproved of by someone, but obscenity alone doesn’t qualify. It isn’t slang, for example, to refer to manure with a four-letter word. But if you put the article ‘the’ in front of that four-letter word and equate the president-elect of the United States to it, then slang it is, and very complimentary.”

After seventy years, the identity of Lorca’s lover is revealed.

In honor of late artist Mike Kelley, a replica of his home.

Speaking of homes, Updike’s will become a museum.

Walking with George Bernard Shaw.