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This Week in Essays
Through her work with Doctors Without Borders, Caitlin L. Chandler offers us a glimpse of what life is like on the Syrian border for Guernica. For Real Life magazine, Christopher Schaberg examines the symbolism of airports as “fraught borderlands” perfect for a protest.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It would certainly appear that things are falling apart even faster than we could have imagined, so hey how about some underwater photography? And you may ask yourself “what is the history of fingernail clipping?” Geophysics through ancient pottery. What…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mila Jaroniec
Mila Jaroniec talks about her debut novel Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover,” writing autofiction, the surprising similarity between selling sex toys and selling books, and the impact of having a baby on editing.
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Next Letter for Kids: Mike Grosso
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from children’s author, teacher, and musician Mike Grosso! Mike writes to us about growing up in a musical family and how his thoughts would spin so fast that he had a hard time sitting still and learning…
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Album of the Week: Sinkane’s Life & Livin’ It
Take a musician born in London, raised for a time in Sudan, and relocated to Ohio at five years old. Have his parents make him listen to Bob Marley, and let him eventually discover great Afrobeat like William Onyeabor, and Pharoah Sanders’s…
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Vocabulary Lessons in Bucharest
I felt unhinged in my moments of isolation, and frustrated in my muteness.
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Weekly Geekery
The hot young things of science fiction. Avoid IKEA with your lover today. Love, loss, and a spritz of psychology.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Stocking backlist titles helps some bookstores differentiate themselves. Harvard Book Store has set up a section commemorating the Bowling Green Massacre. A Florida bookstore has become a source of food for those in need, serving as a Little Free Pantry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Meanwhile, checking in on the end of the world, if you’ve somehow missed WaPo’s article about what the Justice Department knew you need to fix that right now (because this shouldn’t end with the resignation). Also: Richard Spicer has always…
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Spotlight: Eamon Murphy’s “The Test”
“The Test” tells a brief, hypothetical history of the human civilization in the wake of an ominous interaction with an intergalactic deity.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Georgia Bellas
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail from Georgia Bellas! While sitting in an airport drinking a gin and tonic and from the mountains while crickets sing, Georgia sends a letter begun in an airport drinking a gin and tonic,…
