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[Clean Plate Club](
[Michael Gold](
[Michael Gold]( Social Media Editor
In an era of Instagram-driven foodie culture and celebrity chefs with personality cults, itâs easy to forget how much goes into the perfect restaurant meal. A food critic took a shift as a dishwasher to remind us. [WASHINGTON POST »](
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[United Against Hate](
[Anna Dubenko](
[Anna Dubenko]( Senior Digital Strategist
Writers on the right, left and center condemned the violence in Charlottesville, Va. But thatâs about all they could agree on. Pundits on the right, while eager to condemn the racism of white supremacy, also pointed to the violence of the Antifa, the anti-fascist group that comprised some of the counterprotesters. On the left, writers were skeptical about Republican leadersâ condemnation of President Trumpâs equivocation. [THE NEW YORK TIMES »](
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[A Man With a Plan](
[John Schwartz](
[John Schwartz]( Climate Change Reporter
The celebrity profile is generally an awful thing, precious and canned: the cute things [star] said, and what we ate. Not so with this piece about Robert Pattinson by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who is up against a star determined to say nothing, an interview subject who proposes bizarre bonding rituals, which she fields, hilariously, while riffing on his astonishing chin. [GQ »](
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[Learn From the Past](
[Lynda Richardson](
[Lynda Richardson]( Senior Staff Editor, Travel
With President Trumpâs threat to bring âfire and furyâ to nuclear-armed North Korea, it is worth reading one of the finest examples of narrative reporting Iâve ever read. In John Herseyâs 1946 New Yorker article on Hiroshima, the writer traces the everyday activities of six people who survived the atomic blast at 8:15 a.m on August 6, 1945. More than 100,000 people died. The horror is revealed in the very ordinariness of that day.  [THE NEW YORKER »](
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[Armchair Criticism](
[Prashant Rao](
[Prashant Rao]( Deputy Europe Business Editor
Itâs August, so we can (maybe? hopefully?) take a break from politics. In this piece â part of a series where New Statesmen writers explore TV shows they enjoyed growing up â the writer looks at âFrasier.â Her conclusion? The star of the show was not an actor, but an object. [THE NEW STATESMAN »](
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[Ties, Unbound](
[Steven Erlanger](
[Steven Erlanger]( London Bureau Chief
On the 70th anniversary of Indian independence (and the slaughter that followed partition), Justin Rowlatt looks at the legacy of his great-grandfather, who wrote a law that led to the Amritsar massacre. He asks whether India still has special feelings for a post-colonial, post-Brexit Britain. [BBC MAGAZINE »](
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[Leave It to the Professionals](
[Michael Roston](
[Michael Roston]( Senior Staff Editor, Science
Airlines have received a lot of bad press this year. But itâs worth remembering that the pilots who fly their planes have the talents to save your life in tough situations. This tale of a Qantas jet with an out-of-control flight computer will make you wish you had an armrest to grip onto. [SYDNEY MORNING HERALD »](
[Time Travel](
[Jennifer Parrucci](
[Jennifer Parrucci]( Senior Taxonomist
In 1947, a British writer serving as a âfilm correspondentâ for The Times, C.A. Lejeune, distilled what she would know about the United States if her knowledge was based only on what she saw in the movies. National pastimes: baseball and necking. Main geographic areas: California, Kentucky and Texas; a vague area known as the Middle West; a rather démodé section called the Wild, or Woolly, West; and New York. [THE TIMES ARCHIVE »](
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