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The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty Pub Date Nov 14 2023 St. Martin’s Press | St. Martin’s Griffin Description An updated edition of the classic tip-a-day grammar guide from New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Grammar Girl podcast, Mignon Fogarty. One hundred million podcast […]

Polyarchive’s Most Visited Pages of 2025 Introduction to Collected Poems (1938), E.E. Cummings The Poems of Our Climate | Wallace Stevens After a While | Veronica A. Shoffstall (NOT Jorge Luis Borges) Flannery O’Connor: “Where you come from is gone” Book Review: Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano The […]

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”—American novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor (1926-1964) in Wise Blood: A Novel (1952)

Grist | The oceans just hit an ominous milestone A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine “planetary boundaries.” In a new report, scientists warn that we’ve crossed yet another “planetary boundary,” a threshold that keeps Earth’s systems hospitable to life — a sort of global resilience […]

Ivan Bunin hated everyone… well, almost everyone. Tap Water Sommelier compiles a list. Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service.  The company claims to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused. Molly White | Citation Needed Margaret Atwood: Handmaid’s Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools And […]

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras Workman Publishing Company Description A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller. A Feast of Wonder! Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven […]

Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack is among the most important documentation I’m reading these days. All eyes on Gaza and the West Bank.   I recently looked into ELVTR, trying to decide whether it was a scam, when I (unwisely) shared my contact info and was repeatedly contacted by a rep whose name I then Googled. […]

A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover Annette B. Dunlap University of Nebraska Press Description When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well […]

… Susan Sontag’s principal gifts to our civilization were not that easily packaged, but were a brilliant, non-stop commentary on contemporary art practices and their effects on our emotions. She did get off one sound bite in an interview on television, which was to me a stunning sermon in and of itself. She was asked […]

Good Things We’ve Seen on the Internet Lately How a Pop Band Tricked 9 Million Americans into Being Nazis Adam Tod Brown | Cracked.com Do you remember Ace of Base? I should tell you something: Ace of Base was probably a bunch of Nazis. https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america ———— Modern Love, Ancient War William Logan | The New […]

Excerpt from Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin by Catherine Merridale “[The area of modern-day Russia and Ukraine] seemed to be a dangerous, exotic place, where fortunes waited for adventurers. Human slaves were one source of profit, for while Muslims and Christians were forbidden to enslave each other, the pagan Slavs were fair […]

MrPorter.com: The Tribute: 10 Black Style Icons Who Changed British Menswear Words by Fedora Abu For as long as Black people have immigrated to the UK from its former colonies, Black culture has woven itself into the nation’s fabric. … British fashion is no different, although whether those contributions have been rightfully acknowledged is another […]

Top 9 Posts of 2024 Readers came here for many different posts during the year, but these were the most popular: The Poems of Our Climate | Wallace Stevens Dorothy Parker on New York: Autumn is the Springtime of big cities Introduction to Collected Poems (1938), E.E. Cummings You Want a Social Life, with Friends […]

Introduction to Wallace Stevens: A Poet of Imagination and Abstraction Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) occupies a revered place in American poetry, celebrated for his intricate use of language and his philosophical exploration of art, imagination, and reality. A master of modernist verse, Stevens seamlessly blended intellectual depth with musicality, crafting poems that challenge and reward readers […]

The Hilarious World of Depression John Moe St. Martin’s Press Description One of Today’s Ten Best Inspirational Books, 2020 By the creator and host of the acclaimed mental health podcast Depresh Mode with John Moe “[A] path to deeper understanding and openness, by way of laughter in the dark” ―The New York Times Book Review […]