January 2022
Rodeo Relationship
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In Genesis 21:8, Abraham’s making a great feast. There’s lots of hamburgers. Oh, yeah. And spaghetti...
Read MoreThen Amy Died
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Yes, I drank at the Hawley Arms and the Good Mixer in Camden, went to Trash, saw the Strokes at a tiny secret gig...
Read MoreWay Back When
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Despite the fantastic silliness of the in-game time-travel logistics, the promise of historical accuracy has been a major selling point of Assassin’s Creed since the eponymous first installment in 2007...
Read MoreTorments of Unclarity
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Why did Husserl begin thinking about movement? What was it that inspired him to make what one might call “the movement turn”?
Read MoreThe room refrigerator had gained five…
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I don’t mean to complain, but the thrice-daily knock-on-the-door announcing the delivery of food was no longer welcome...
Read MoreOrwell’s Perfect Boozer
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My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...
Read MoreSusan Daitch on Natan Mendelson, Jef de Wulf and Mazarin
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Where do you put that memory as you sit in a café in Dizengoff Street, when it taps you on the shoulder and asks if this seat is taken?
Read MoreWonderful Schrebergartens
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Through the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes...
Read MoreGod, Justice, Love, Beauty: Remembering Jean-Luc Nancy
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For Nancy, democracy is not a given form of government, with a fixed meaning, but a term whose meaning is in contestation...
Read MoreWit, Sarcasm, Satire
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The Dud Avocado follows the period young Sally Gorce chooses an expat existence in Paris over college...
Read MoreAmerica’s Ecstasy of Sanctimony
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Tribalism is binary: the grey zone of subtlety, ambiguity, complexity and hesitation shrinks almost to nothing. Mistakes become crimes...
Read MoreConservation of Conservation
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The book runs the gamut of conservation techniques: specimen collection and field research, zoos and nature preserves, assisted colonization, and de-extinction via genetic rescue...
Read MoreA Spinozan Reading by Simon Calder
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Seventeenth-century Christian churches might have been better fortified against the challenges of modernity if they had embraced Spinozism...
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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