Language Map
If you’re looking for an interactive map to play with today, here’s a cool one. It breaks down where various languages are spoken around the country by the percentage of…
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Judging Teachers
This new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has been getting major press attention. At The Awl, Maria Bustillos questions the merit of the study and its efforts…
Prompts in Your Box
Online writing community Figment has recently inaugurated Figment Daily Themes, “a free daily email service through which subscribers receive a thoughtful, compelling writing prompt five days a week.” Occasionally, prompts…
“Nothing Good Gets Away”
In 1858, John Steinbeck’s eldest son wrote his father a letter in which he expressed his belief that he had fallen in love. Steinbeck wrote him back with advice. “First—if…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What the world really needs is video games for pigs. If I’ve learned anything doing this column, it’s that Berlin has the best hotels. “Don’t be HER pin-up boy.” Similarly:…
The City in Words
“They say fiction requires conflict; well, when New York was a war of all against all, you had all the conflict you could handle any time you put your feet…
Avoiding Amazon in 2012
“Many people assume that if you want e-books, you’ve got to buy them from Amazon or another online retailer. They’re wrong about that. You most certainly can purchase e-books from…
Kim Hyesoon Interview
Guernica has an extensive interview with South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, who elaborates on life as a woman poet and the state of feminism in Korea. Hyesoon discusses the role…
“Before He Opened His Mouth”
“Somehow you wind up on the topic of his wife’s vagina.” So begins Rumpus columnist Sari Botton’s story, “Before He Opened His Mouth,” which was published yesterday at This Recording.
What’s Your Favorite Poem and Why?
“That was the question Nicola Behrman asked her pals on the eve of Thanksgiving 2010. Then, on a whim, she asked them to write it out by hand and pop…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Japanese understand the key to depression is baby robots (robot babies). Peter Newell’s The Rocket Book is your early 20th Century kids book of the day. By the way,…
Fractured Systems
The Nation explores the poetry of Juliana Spahr, Noah Eli Gordon, Anna Moschovakis and Kathleen Ossip, articulating how all four poets react to “big modern systems,” while rendering compounded emotions.…