The high sign that rules this summer is increasing fragmentation.
"Apartheid U.S.A.", Audre Lorde
It’s like watching a squirrel try to disarm a nuclear weapon—no surprise that he fails to do it, but the reader is left wondering why he even wanted to try.
"Dick Hebdige Explained Dinergoth in 1979", Rusty Foster for his newsletter Today in Tabs
Submitted by Ed.
Being from electricity, I have a lot to learn from water.
A panelist at one of the American Association of Geography conference sessions I attended
A late addition that should have gone in last week but I lost track of it until going back through my notes.
String theory is not dead; it’s undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people’s brains.
"Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?", Natalie Wolchover for Quanta Magazine
Submitted by Cassia.
It has just about the worst attitude of any love poem out there.
Elisabeth Nicula's letter from the editor in the San Francisco Review of Whatever
Vague is clear that Willing was unwilling.
"Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?", Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker
Submitted by Sam with the note that "for context, Richard Vague has written a book about Thomas Willing, who bankrolled the American Revolution but voted against the Declaration of Independence. He was 'unwilling' to cosign the revolutionary cause even as he supported it."
I learned to admire what is limber, what is mercenary: the outsider, the unvoiced sound, the counterpoint.
"A Pear is a Pear", Timmy Straw for The Baffler
I read this in the print magazine and it looks like it is not yet on the website. Keep an eye out for this essay, part of a terrific package of short pieces from writers about side hustles.
It reminds me of when I woke up the day after my bar mitzvah and I no longer believed in God anymore.
A.M. Gittlitz, as interviewed by Lucas Trevor in Hell Gate
Submitted by a different Sam (Sam R.).
In the past, images seen by only one person were a sign of madness.
"Witness at the End of Time", Claire Evans in her newsletter Wild Information
Submitted by Robin.
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