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The New Yorker
The Strangeness of Grief
20+ min · · V. S. Naipaul reckons with the different forms of loss. · Shared by 110, including Anjan Sundaram, Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Tuur Demeester, Faik Ersoy, Jane, Timothy Lomauro
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Confessions of a Mask
8 min · · I first learned how to journal from a story in the New Yorker. I’ve tried to find it since, without success. Here’s what I remember: in the apartment I grew up in, we had that continually growing… · Shared by 10, including Kyle Chayka, Rick Powell
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My Semester With the Snowflakes
13+ min · · At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me. · Shared by 215, including Dan Primack, Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter, Yale University, Anthony Hamelle, Jonathan Haidt, dj patil, Cindy Alvarez @cindyalvarez@mastodon.social, Daniel Mezick, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Howard Getson, Kenneth Kalmer, Semil, Matthias Lampe, Larry Ferlazzo, Leo Polovets, Steven Sinofsky, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Edward Tufte, Christian Fahrenbach, Scott McLeod
ELLE Magazine (US)
Google Loved Me, Until I Pointed Out Everything That Sucked About It
13+ min · · Claire Stapleton didn't just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics? · Shared by 165, including Gianluca Diegoli, Claudia Sommer, Mark Kaigwa, Katja Evertz, Gisele Navarro, Florian Hanke 🍎, Nilofer Merchant, Rick Powell
huw.substack.com
Shame, shame, shame
9 min · · (A quick note: this essay discusses racism, transphobia, homophobia, and violence.) Last week I joined the Orgullo Critical (Critical Pride) march, an anti-corporate response to the money-infested… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
How useful is ‘impostor syndrome’ in academia?
15+ min · · As a philosopher, I can’t conceal my class. But I prefer the counsel of my grandmother to platitudes about ‘impostor syndrome’ · Shared by 15, including Tim Bray, Rick Powell
The Guardian
My early diaries filled me with so much shame I burned them. I’m publishing the rest
6 min · · Revisiting a diary forces you to confront ‘ugly, foolish behaviour’, writes Helen Garner. Pulling together a book of extracts was instructive – but not easy · Shared by 52, including Rick Powell, Liv 😷
The Guardian
Going Home by Raja Shehadeh review – rich, sad reflections from Ramallah
3 min · · Palestine’s greatest prose writer reflects on hope and disillusion in his home city 50 years after the Israeli invasion · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
The Crane Wife
13+ min · · Ten days after calling after her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes. · Shared by 286, including Howard Getson, Karen K. Ho, Nilofer Merchant, Caitlin Moran, Hiroko Tabuchi, Rick Powell, mdy, Arin Basu, @spite.vc on bluesky, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Mark Isero, Avinash Kaushik
Literary Hub
Like Writing, Cruising is an Exercise in Introspection and Perseverance
7 min · · Like so many of us, my first introduction to the concepts of puberty and sex came by way of a grainy film reel I watched in the cafeteria of my elementary school along with the rest of the boys in … · Shared by 14, including Rick Powell
Human Parts
You Don’t Smile Until We Get High
4 min · · As a practice patient for doctor’s assistants, I humiliate myself for the chance to see you again · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
The New York Review of Books
The Murderer, the Writer, the Reckoning
20+ min · · On February 10, 2002, in a New York State prison cell, the bestselling author and twice-convicted killer Jack Abbott hanged himself. That same day, the body of the man I murdered washed ashore on a… · Shared by 21, including Howard Getson, Rick Powell
Literary Hub
Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Being a Patriotic Black Southerner
7 min · · For years, she calls, and I let it go to voice mail. I tell her: I don’t need it. I don’t want it. It’s creepy to be ruled by things you don’t understand. Things I don’t care to understand. Yet, de… · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
SELF
Alanis Morissette on Pregnancy at 45, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, and #MeToo
20+ min · · In (vulnerable, emotional, ecstatic) conversation with the musical icon. · Shared by 40, including Christina, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Rick Powell, Leslie slow and steady Bradshaw 🐢, Karen K. Ho, trudy
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A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived
19+ min · · I’ll begin by confessing: I fucked up. I fucked up as a friend, an acquaintance, a stranger, a neighbor, and as a partner. I said cruel things; I said provocative things; I said obscene things; I said… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell, Christina Hoff Sommers