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Inge Morath/Magnum Photos When a writer is praised for having a sense of place, it usually means one specific place — a postage stamp of familiar...
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Methodology Producing this list began with identifying criteria against which stores would be judged, including inventory, curation, proprietorship, customer service, ambience, location and payoff — would...
In the summer of 2016, streaming TV was still figuring itself out. Netflix had been producing original series for a few years, with occasional company from...
