When I was 10 or so, my grandmother came to stay with us for what my parents called “a while.” Longer than a visit, shorter than getting your mail forwarded.
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DOGE-Pilled
“Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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Jesus Christ is Born in Texas
“70,000 believers arrive at the Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas to witness America’s greatest Christmas pageant.”
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The Very Hungry Urchins
“They’re very simple animals, but they’re very effective at what they do.”
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The Feud Tearing the Paleontology World Apart
“Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth.”
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The Rise of Plant Poaching: How a Craze for Succulents is Driving a New Illegal Trade
“In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation.”
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Wild Clocks
“Attentive to the loss of age-old ecological relationships as ‘wild clocks’ fall out of synchronization with each other, David Farrier imagines an opportunity to renew the rhythms by which we live.”
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Friction, Travel Writing, and Our Top 5
A reading list on friction, an interview about travel writing, and the week’s Top 5.
