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“More tellingly still, on the block in front of me are half a dozen dead pheasants. This is the butchery department, deep in the bowels of Waltham Forest College in North East London, UK, where I am the only female student.” For those who celebrate, Easter weekend can mean a big ol’ roast dinner. Some […]
Recommending memorable pieces by Seth Freed Wessler, Stuart McGurk, Jon Mooallem, Ben Lerner, Kiese Laymon, and Amelia Tait.
“I’ve wandered into the heart of a fabled forest whose inhabitants both control and are controlled by their landscape, fates entwined. I’ve arrived at a time when ways of life that have dominated here for centuries are being upended, and no one knows quite what is to come.” I’m a sucker for a mantra, for […]
Have you read Craig Brown’s Hello Goodbye Hello? It’s a blast: “a circle of 101 remarkable meetings,” as the jacket says, with each chapter a pithy, intimate encounter between two figures from history
An exploration of scale, limits, and care—featuring our new essay “By All Measures” and this week’s Top 5 reads.
“Yet I still doggy paddle in impostor syndrome. For I am not a biologist or cetologist, nor an oceanographer. I am just a woman with a pen, a profound love for water, and an eye for noticing patterns in the currents, eddies, and swirls of living.” Sometimes words aren’t enough. Or, at least, existing words […]
We may often think of poetry as something formal or grand, or meant for the pages of a book. But these two essays remind us that poetry lives in many places.
“Our Bommy Nights certainly felt like more of a folk event than being strongly allied to the Gunpowder Plot. And that’s probably because there’s some primal instinct in all of us, some genetic memory, that draws us to a bloody good fire.”
Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.
