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On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

By Meg Pillow | July 31, 2025

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

Piers Gelly on a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse

By Piers Gelly | July 28, 2025

Expat, Economic Migrant or Refugee? And Why These Labels Shouldn’t Matter

Expat, Economic Migrant or Refugee? And Why These Labels Shouldn’t Matter

Alex Poppe Considers Her Family’s History of Immigration In Light of Trump’s Xenophobic Assault

By Alex Poppe | July 25, 2025

How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

Tanya Talaga Explores the Intersections of a Family Mystery and the Ongoing Legacy of Genocide Against Canada’s First Nations

By Tanya Talaga | July 24, 2025

On the Unlikeliness of Life: Why We’re Still Lucky to Be Alive Today

On the Unlikeliness of Life: Why We’re Still Lucky to Be Alive Today

Simon Boas Considers the Ways Fate, Circumstance and Privilege Influence How We Live

By Simon Boas | July 23, 2025

The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

Ruthie Ackerman: “We are everything that ever happened to us.”

By Ruthie Ackerman | July 21, 2025

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Nature’s Infinite Possibilities: Exploring the World’s Many Ways of Knowing

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Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

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Rebecca Chace on Matsuo Bashō and the Life and Death of Her Mother, the Poet Jean Valentine

By Rebecca Chace | July 14, 2025

From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library

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Peter Wortsman on the Ever-Difficult Task of Saving and Discarding Beloved Books

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The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

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To stack or not to stack? This is the question.

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The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

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Joanna Howard Explores the Impact of Her Mother’s Passion For Film on Her Own Storytelling

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On Killing a Coyote

On Killing a Coyote

“We see ourselves in the predators of the wild; to eat a coyote would feel like an act of cannibalism.”

By Helen Whybrow | July 7, 2025

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