Ginger Eager 7/6/21 Ginger Eager 7/6/21

Shifting Baselines

It’s possible to create systems that are visionary for their time and also must be changed over time.

Chandra Ganguly 7/6/21 Chandra Ganguly 7/6/21

All in God’s Hands

One of them said, “I know of at least twenty people who have died in India.”

Dan Hunter 7/6/21 Dan Hunter 7/6/21

Brain Training

The skill you practice online does not provably transfer to a skill in life.

Olena Jennings 7/6/21 Olena Jennings 7/6/21

The Embodiment of a Word

A thread can convey as much as a word.

Umang Kumar 7/6/21 Umang Kumar 7/6/21

Inspiration and Expiration: The Banality of Respiration in India's Second Wave

Delhi, with its pretensions to almighty power and its vulgar display of privilege, was brought to its knees.

Julia Lieblich 7/6/21 Julia Lieblich 7/6/21

The Woman Who Came Back

I had read that weavers see the cloth as having a soul whose colors give off poder, power or heat.

Askold Melnyczuk 7/6/21 Askold Melnyczuk 7/6/21

Apropos of Nothing, Zero to the Bone

DeLillo’s sentences operate on a vertical as well as a horizontal axis.

Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 7/6/21 Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 7/6/21

College 2021

We begin our new lives, or restart our old ones, with the knowledge that we’re capable of more than we knew.

Douglas Penick 7/6/21 Douglas Penick 7/6/21

Amid The Stars

In writing, solitude and society are always joined.

Steven Ratiner 7/6/21 Steven Ratiner 7/6/21

A Community of Voices: The First Year of the Red Letter Project

This was another reminder: hope, too, is contagious.

Mosab Abu Toha 7/6/21 Mosab Abu Toha 7/6/21

How Easy is it to Take a Shower?

I think I should keep my clothes on while having a shower. Or maybe not?

Peter Balakian 4/6/21 Peter Balakian 4/6/21

Denial, Lies, & Fear: Democracy in Jeopardy

A democracy cannot be based on lies and its lethal companion denial.

Ginger Eager 4/6/21 Ginger Eager 4/6/21

Nail Polish on Nickels

Maybe this ideal of higher education as a liberalizing experience reflects nothing more than class naiveté.

Ken Edwards 4/6/21 Ken Edwards 4/6/21

Notes from Brexitannia

The depredations of Brexit have still to make themselves fully felt in Hastings, but those of the pandemic have.

David Ghitelman 4/6/21 David Ghitelman 4/6/21

On Audio Books: Prolonging the Pleasures of the Text

Why does listening enable me to enter a timeless realm I have rarely, if ever, found in reading?

Andrea Gregory 4/6/21 Andrea Gregory 4/6/21

Green is the New Black

There is no help. There is no kindness. This is a state-run psychiatric hospital.

Nidia Hernández 4/6/21 Nidia Hernández 4/6/21

Poetry and Power

Where do poets’ verses, their poems, and they themselves stand in relation to power?

Fanny Howe 4/6/21 Fanny Howe 4/6/21

To Claudia Rankine

Thank you, Claudia, for your book — it is a model of generosity to those who might not know “what’s up.”

Dan Hunter 4/6/21 Dan Hunter 4/6/21

Get Ready Man

Technological advancement may be inevitable, but it is not inevitably good for all of us.

James Brandon Lewis 4/6/21 James Brandon Lewis 4/6/21

Molecular Part 3: A Code of Being

My father said: “I don’t want to hear about those artists. What I want to know is who my son is, musically.”