Naturalists Unknown

… had her gardener dig a trench around a fruit tree to demonstrate that the larvae of the 17-year cicadas, which would not emerge until 1851, were feeding on the tree’s roots. She convinced Agassiz that she was right, and one year later, he supported her for membership in the nascent American Association for …

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Jay Katelansky

… song stuck in Katelansky’s head long after the exhibition ended, and during the pandemic, its lyrics took on new meaning for her. At Madison’s Garver Feed Mill, she recently put on a solo show titled S is for Survival. The series is “a dissection of Gaynor’s song, and I’ve been using …

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Routine

… month of vacation, and I was spending it in the States, with my mother in New Mexico and stepmother in Colorado. A change from the routine of feeding and walking the dogs, feeding and brushing the cats, watering the garden, and greeting the neighbors and exchanging the usual good wishes along with occasional fresh veggies …

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A Clean, Well-Ordered Place

… make our permanent home; and Kraków, Poland, where my Polish wife and I live for a few months each year. In all these places, we could easily feed ourselves without ever stepping into a traditional grocery. Farmers’ markets abound, as do specialty shops. But I love grocery stores. In the lonely years before I met …

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Madeline Donahue

… began to reflect the more chaotic side of parenting: of “the trio and how we exist together,” she says. “Like, how do you entertain a toddler while feeding a newborn?”

Squash, 2019, oil on canvas.
Dollhouse, 2023, oil on canvas.
Lunchtime in the Grass, 2023, oil on canvas.
The Dream, 2020, oil on canvas.
Cabaret …

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Origin Stories

… York it would be nice to meet him,” she wrote to her friend Maryat Lee, “here it would not. I observe the traditions of the society I feed on—it’s only fair.” But for all the incriminating evidence that The Habit of Being introduces, the book represents only a portion of O’Connor’s …

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This Is Not the Zombie Apocalypse

… Atlantic. His ideas were shared widely on my Twitter feed, where one user bemoaned the “cerebral catastrophe” caused by P2P and another wondered whether, as damaged as they are, users of P2P could ever be stably housed. One post on Nextdoor (the site where neighbors connect to neighbors to “cultivate a kinder world”) expressed …

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Epithalamium

… was my first text reply:
dad omg of course come to wedding, what? i love you too
Three red hearts!
Good dog.

One upshot of the better feeding and miles of walking was that I was losing some weight. Maybe a lot of weight. I didn’t have a scale, but noticed my clothes were …

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Of Panic and Paranoia

… 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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The Falcon’s Odd Little Cousin

… 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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