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An actor on dialect

Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ accent, the history of “dude,” singing in dialect… If you’re obsessed with the way people speak, bookmark actor Ben Trawick-Smith’s Dialect Blog, recently highlighted at Language Hat and Sentence First.

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A Sport and a Pastime, and more

It’s James Salter Month at The Paris Review. Kate Peterson interviews him, and Geoff Dyer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Porochista Khakpour, Ian Crouch, and other writers offer appreciations in the lead-up to the annual Spring Revel, where he’ll be honored.

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A hundred and eight in people-years

Binnie Kirshenbaum is estranged from her elderly father, who lives in an assisted living facility with an elderly cat. She sends food baskets from Katz’s deli and imagines what his life will be like if the cat dies first.

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