Buy All the Fruit

Good morning. When Alison Roman goes to the market this time of year, she buys fruit. All of the fruit. And then she cooks it, spending more time in her kitchen making desserts than she does at any other time of the year. She has, she says, no regrets about that. She does have recipes,…

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National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants

Image President James Madison’s Montpelier estate in Virginia. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a grant for field research to analyze materials excavated from the estate overseer’s quarters.CreditKenneth M. Wyner/Montpelier Foundation An animated short documentary series about female trailblazers in the Progressive Era, a biography of Sacagawea and a project analyzing materials excavated from…

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The Em Dash Divides

After the Oxford comma debate and the death knell of the period, the latest mark to define and divide us — breaking up our thoughts, adding emphasis to our convictions, alternately vexing and delighting readers — is the em dash. For some writers, the em dash is a vice that their editors occasionally forgive but…

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