Summer Brennan considers the art and ritual of reinvention in the history of Notre Dame cathedral, and its witness to a Parisian millennium.
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O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.
Posted inCulture, Design, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Brooklyn Lost Itself
On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
My Brown Dad Voted for Trump
Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Weather and the Wall
Climate change and the border wall are more connected than you might think.
Posted inQuote Posts
How Vietnam Shaped Robert S. Mueller
After serving in combat during the Vietnam War, nothing Robert S. Mueller encounters will ever be as intense.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story, Technology
‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.
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How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business
Molly Young visits the home of the Moon Juice guru and attempts to dissect what makes her the perfect wellness entrepreneur: “In our wellness-obsessed era, the idea of working yourself to the bone is no longer a commendable trait but a failure of self-care; recreation is now cast as a divine pursuit.”
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A Beautiful, Rugged Place: Erosion of the Body
The life-long writer, teacher, and activist believed she could save a piece of land or a species, but after her brother took his life, she questioned her optimism and how to grieve for him and the planet.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Hellhound on the Money Trail
Standard recording contracts screwed Bluesmen out of royalties in the early 1900s, and the system was no different when Columbia released “Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings in 1990.”
