“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”
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St. John the Wondermaker
“Since April, on the past five fourth Wednesdays of the month I have driven to St. John the Wondermaker Orthodox Church, in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood, to wash and trim and file the feet of a handful of the city’s 2,200 unhoused men.”
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How Words Give Shape to Legacies
New York Times writer Sam Roberts on the art of the obituary.
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Stet: On Cutting—but Keeping—Everything
“I prefer to keep my darlings on ice.”
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An Act of Cosmic Sabotage
“How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions.”
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Why Are TV Writers So Miserable?
“On the cusp of a potential strike, writers explain why no one is having much fun making television anymore.”
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Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List
Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.
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In the Shadow of the Mountain
“One British family produced two legendary climbers whose summitted mountains in the Alps and the Himalayas. This is their story.”
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Inside America’s Death Chambers
“What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption.”
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When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer
“Robert Munsch wrote ‘The Paper Bag Princess,’ ‘Love You Forever’ and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But his stories are slipping away.”
