Friday Poem

Wednesday Poem

Thursday Poem

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Open Thread

Loitering towards war

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature

Illinois Will Finally Stop Stripping People of Their Home Equity—3 Years After the Supreme Court Outlawed It

Tuesday Poem

Sunday Poem

Poem by Jim Culleny

A Poem for Every Parent: Victoria Redel Reads & Discusses “Bedecked”

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Open Thread

Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” 

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot

Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921