Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And now a response to that article last week about European architecture’s fear of color. Important space weather news. Here are your 19th century astronomy illustrations for the day. Many…
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Mixed Feelings: The Emotional Labor of Listening to Men Complain
In the first installment of "Mixed Feelings," a science-based advice column, Mandy Catron offers counsel on handling a partner's obsession with their ex.
Next Letter for Kids: Eric Luper
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Eric Luper! Eric describes the time he escaped hungry crocodiles, and all the adventure that ensued. To make sure this letter reaches…
The Evolution of a Trigger
Perhaps they are really saying: This will not happen to me. I will be prepared. And, in hoisting that hypothetical gun, they feel they are made safe from the appalling vulnerability of living.
Notable Los Angeles: 3/27–4/2
Monday 3/27: Jacqueline Winspear discusses and signs In This Grave Hour. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 3/28: William Daniels discusses and signs There I Go Again: How I Came to Be…
This Week in Books: The Color She Gave Gravity
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s Characters Muscle Their Way through Girlhood
In our current political climate with its rampant animosity towards immigrants, Arimah offers a humanizing portrait of both the Nigerian citizen and first generation young female immigrant.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Start your week right, with a trip back to mermaid city. Start your week right, thinking about a nuke going off in Manhattan. Mapping out the America’s noisiest places. No,…
Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair
To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
Notable Twin Cities: 3/26–4/1
Sunday 3/26: Check out some rad writers on the topic of food: More Than a Single Story: Reclaiming Our Food. Carolyn Holbrook moderates panel of writers and community leaders as…
Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Six Erasure Poems by Alison Thumel
Give amnesty. / Which birthright / is perpetual / and whose is made? / One sentence / should be kept: / I had a body / to believe.