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This Week in Essays

Anna Machin looks at the science of why friendships are to be treasured over at Aeon. “Nothing from the past is as glorious as I remember it. If I get close enough, the memories fall apart.” Hanif...

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This Week in Essays

For The Nasiona, Mydalis Vera revels in the bread that we don’t have to make. Anubha Momin’s mother’s deep connection to architecture comes into focus on a road trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses,...

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This Week in Essays

Alexander Sammon gives a helpful firsthand look at the perils of casual daytrading for n+1. For Midnight & Indigo, Jasminum McMullen discovers that body size is not a factor in street harassment....

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This Week in Essays

At Guernica, Simona Blat sets out to see if anything could possibly be good luck in 2020, the year of the rat. For The Point magazine, Agnes Callard reflects on how creating special rules for geniuses...

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This Week in Essays

At n+1, Jeremiah Moss considers the joys, terrors, and resurgent rats of New York City. For Pidgeonholes, Julia Edith Rios writes about the particular weight of a nickname as it relates to body image...

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This Week in Essays

For Naihobe Gonzalez, writing at The Offing, continual blackouts lead to a tenuous living situation. At Entropy, Claire Sicherman and Marissa Korbel explore the tribulations of adolescence. “Instead,...

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This Week in Essays

“The body becomes little more than an object, sometimes, something abstracted from yourself, a doll loose in the hands of another.” At Catapult, s.e. smith finds that bodily autonomy is difficult to...

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This Week in Essays

For The Baffler, Ann Neumann looks at embracing menopause as a natural and necessary stage of life. “I find myself a kind of manager of my body, the type who diligently attends professional development...

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This Week in Essays

“So what do you do when the thing you’ve always been taught is an expression of love becomes trapped in violence?” For Granta, Lucia Osborne-Crowley writes on safety, love, and intimacy in the wake of...

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This Week in Essays

“For me, walking makes space for reflection, much like church or meditation does for others.” Jennifer Tennant writes on the restorative nature of a good walk for The Smart Set. At Kotaku, Cecilia...

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This Week in Essays

“Only those safe from fascism and its practices are far more likely to think that there might be a benefit in exchanging ideas with fascists.” At Lit Hub, Aleksander Hemon exposes the truth: there is...

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This Week in Essays

“I know that the fat on my body is part of me, and I can choose to carry it like a backpack weighing me down, bruising my shoulders by the end of the day. Or I can carry it like a fashion accessory...

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For Guernica, Sara Nović explores the details and language that cling to us through connection and loss. “Recent research, engaging with autistic people as partners rather than simply observing them,...

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At Electric Literature, Marcos Santiago Gonsalez makes a strong argument for why writing programs must reconceive their perception of quality to foster a truly inclusive culture. For The Rumpus,...

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For Aeon, Ben Thomas writes a reflective essay that looks at the ways humans preserve the past in anticipation of the future. Here at The Rumpus, Patricia Grisafi examines the role of female revenge...

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Over at The Walrus, Fatima Syed looks to build space in popular culture for depictions of different types of Muslims. With a sinking feeling, Kristen Arnett looks inside herself and finds nothing but...

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For the Passages North blog, Jennifer Maritza McCauley discovers a connection to Rosa Parks and goes to Alabama in search of answers. Can you go home again to a place you’ve never been? Enuma Okoro...

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For the office drones struggling to come back after the four-day weekend, take heart in James Livingston’s essay for Aeon considering whether work is necessary in our present age. Here at The Rumpus,...

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The Gender of Mothering

At Aeon, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore writes on the language of “mothering” and the trans parents and activists seeking to define the work of mothering for themselves.Related Posts:The Sunday Rumpus...

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Dazed And Confused

The network would indeed generate a lot of wealth, but it would be wealth of the Adam Smith sort—and it would be concentrated in a few hands, not widely spread. The culture that emerged on the network,...

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