This Week in Essays
For The Atlantic, Ed Yong outlines each and every way the US has deeply messed up its COVID-19 response. At the Paris Review, Destiny O. Birdsong unravels the complicated feelings behind a violent...
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“The acoustics of silence over the slaughter of Palestinians relies on the melody of dehumanisation.” At Meanjin, Randa Abdel-Fattah embarks on an oral history project and comes up against hard truths...
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Rachel Kushner reflects on a 2016 trip to Palestine for n+1. P.L. Watts writes on the foster care system, problematic family, and ghosts at The Smart Set. August Lamm fights for a life and a livelihood...
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Melissa Hart writes on chickens, mothers, and homophobia for DAME magazine. At Guernica, Sisonke Msimang writes about the travel-restricted pandemic, fleeing apartheid, Palestine, and the ways we...
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At Places Journal, Andrew Wingfield and Michael P. Gilmore go deep into the Amazon to see how the Maijuna are trying to save their land from development. For Entropy, Rebecca Delacruz-Gunderson...
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For The Atlantic, Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez writes on Cuba and a new generation striving for political change. Chris Dennis contemplates the carceral state, mechanisms of power and control, and Ghislaine...
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Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death is a wonder of a novel, investigating layers of consciousness by following the journey of three human characters as they explore memory, ghosts, intimacy, and trauma in the...
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At Scalawag, Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott write on how busy work inboxes are that much more annoying amid the ongoing climate crisis. For Entropy, Alexandra Middleton writes on being witness to a...
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Sunny Pak writes on caregiving, grief, and the things taken by dementia and Covid for Entropy. At Granta, Bathsheba Demuth digs up whale houses, histories, and migrations. Emily Nelson writes on who...
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Melissa Bowers recounts a marriage that almost was and the pain that comes with it at New Ohio Review. Over at Places Journal, Rashad Shabazz gives a look at the musical history of a Minneapolis that...
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