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Leaving Home
… Jamaica before she leaves for the States, her rebellion against the conservative culture of her family and community, and how returning to her artistic and cultural roots feeds her music.
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
Following the publication of her debut novel, Annie John, which ends with the title character leaving her home island of Antigua for …
Superheroes Are So Gay!
… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Good Neighbors
Good neighbors—the ones who check that your front door is locked, feed your dog, make sure you’ve got a flashlight when the power goes out—are indispensable, in life and in literature. Think of the close-knit communities in Willa Cather’s novels and the people who helped each other in the aftermath …
Read MoreMary Roach & a Double Dose of Shakespeare
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Manifest Poverty
… not the poor rednecks they pretended to be. It is a fact that the opponents of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies were primarily wealthy southern senators feeding at the corporate trough.
White Trash, more than a simple history of the southern poor, is a beautifully cadenced argument against the rape of the American underclass …
The Taming of the Wild
… Thoreau and Muir, is of little relevance in this new world. We must embrace new ideas and new technologies if we are to provide the resources to feed nine billion humans. Nature is dead, and Earth isn’t a wild place, but a garden. And like Candide, we must cultivate our garden. We must manage …
Read MoreThe Great Summing Up
… a few—it became the first encyclopedia to sell more than a million copies. Today, it lives on in countless printed anthologies and digital reproductions, and as feedstock for Wikipedia.
Less well known is the visionary hucksterism behind its birth. In Everything Explained That Is Explainable, Denis Boyles brings to life a rollicking saga of …
Jane Austen’s Ivory Cage
… was at a conference, and she’d forgotten her paper; would I mind faxing it to her? When I got to the grad student lounge and started feeding the pages into the creaky fax machine, I started to read them out of curiosity. When I found she was a Jane Austen scholar, the fact that …
Read MoreBlack Hole Blues
… caliber of the technology is mostly impressive, so I kind of gawk at the floppy disk. The physical labor and the meticulous details layer and integrate and feedback and are compounded until a machine is ultimately built. The power structure of the operation is horizontal at some strata. Everybody seems to understand the job, so …
Read MoreThis Week’s Haiku to Become Next Week’s Tanka
… celebration of red
Girl in a red dress
picking poppies in springtime,
O pick me, pick me
And Charles Bingham’s local habitation and a name
Whales feed on herring,
flowers bloom; spring is here in
Sitka, Alaska.
And Tyler Goldman’s masterly seven-syllable middle line
After the false spring:
the spring. The ducks …