August 2021
More than Heavenly Bliss by Andre Gerard
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Important as the soup is in To the Lighthouse it is never identified, never seen as “beautiful red soup” or “eternal” tomato soup...
Read MoreConsidering Cremation
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Just a few steps away, my mind was buzzing like a bee: What the hell are you doing? You’re only fifty! People your age are starting new chapters in their lives, and you’re planning your death?
Read MoreDouglas Penick on David Jones
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At the time of the dooms in the third quarter of the Reaper’s Moon, in the island of Britain...
Read MoreThe Terror and Transitional Justice in the Twentieth Century
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The same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind...
Read MoreRobin DiAngelo’s Racial Essentialism
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There’s a sense of deep internal contradiction running through DiAngelo’s writing that emerges from such discrepancies and which is at odds with the wealth she has accrued as an authority on anti-racism. It points towards the limitations of a worldview that, however well intentioned, pushes us deeper into the...
Read MoreLooking for Frogspawn
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When we found the lumpy soup of proto-frogs, it felt reassuring to me: a symbol of renewal...
Read MoreThe Quest for Solitude and Silence
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A practice ‘designed to demonstrate the transience of all material things’ has been co-opted in ‘service of the profit motive’...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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