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On today’s “Other People’s Words,” “I Used to Be but Now I Am” by Ted Berrigan. I’m not sure I can pin down what exactly it is that I like about the poem, but I just know that I like it.
I used to be inexorable,
But now I am elusive.
I used to be the future […]

Steve Finch has finally gotten around to filing another report. He asked that this one be filed under: “Is every lie a deception?”
HOLLYWOOD — In a town made famous for the lies it tells to both itself and the world, this reporter found something quite expected: a class about lying well. The surprise wasn’t finding a class […]

Mark Halperin, a political writer for Time, got a great deal of flack for a recent column in the New York Times. The column, entitled “How ‘What It Takes’ Took Me Off Course,” consists primarily of Halperin sharing the revelation that there is a difference between the campaigning for president and being president. As he […]

I’ve long been seeking one thing — a song, a poem, a quotation, even a book — that once found will magically save all people — save them from their greed, their fear, and their unnecessary antipathy for one another.
One day I met my anti-prophet, who told me this:
I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t exist, it can’t exist, and […]

Helvetica is a documentary about a typeface with the same name. That typeface is also the one in which this post’s green headline is written. And to simplify the coming discussion, I want to make clear that Helvetica is a documentary and Helvetica is a typeface.
The essential goal of Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica is to examine […]