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The Editor Who Helped Build a Golden Age of American Letters Malcolm Cowley championed Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey—and elevated the status of American writing.

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“I had lost a poet and guide.”
In his essay, “Writing Haiti and the Caribbean Present”, @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social reflects on his correspondences with Danielle Legros Georges, her mentorship, her writing, her vision for poetry, and her care. Read the full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

Single-panel cartoon by Tom Toro. Two men sit in a book-lined study. The older one says: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

Positive (1990) Rosa von Praunheim YouTube video by kevin hernandez

RIP Rosa Von Praunheim.

Among many, many memories, Rose brought me and Michael Callen and Robert Hilferty to Germany to try to start ACT UP. Now I am the only one still alive from that trip. But for now here is his film "Positive."

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It's interesting to me conservatives, Republicans only ever talk about costs, budgetary issues, when they're discussing "Democrat programs" designed to help struggling people, address social and economic problems. When it comes to "Republican programs," like offensive war, the sky's the limit.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

This actually has bipartisan support 🤬
#privacy #internet #freespeech
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

This Tuscan Chicken and Potatoes is giving “I cooked like an Italian goddess in under an hour” energy. Golden chicken, crispy potatoes, creamy Parmesan sauce, sun‑dried tomatoes, spinach, and a sprinkle of bacon because… obviously.
Serve it hot. Flex it proudly.
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Late April In The Woods Minnetonka Minnesota

Late April In The Woods
Minnetonka Minnesota

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

Roc Nation Says Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Most-Watched Of All-Time With 4.157 Billion Views in 24 Hours Roc Nation reported that Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl halftime show was the most-watched of all-time with more than 4.157 billion views in 24 hours.

Roc Nation Says Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Most-Watched Of All-Time With 4.157 Billion Views in 24 Hours

STREETWISE | Kirkus Reviews A noted banker on his career in global finance.

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Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the ra...

Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar

Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the race

As ever, this year’s Oscars have...

7 key points in U.S.-Iran relations since 1953 The U.S. and Iran have a long history of tensions, including a CIA-led campaign to topple Iran's prime minister in 1953 and the taking of American hostages in 1979.

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A War That Cannot Be Won: Israel and the United States Bomb Iran Having just formed the Board of Peace, the United States and Israel have begun the board’s first war, this time on Iran. The US-Israel attack launched early on February 28, on sites in Iran has alread...

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To Catch a Fascist “Absorbing.” —THE NEW YORKER, BEST BOOKS OF 2026 A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in...

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The Influence of Anxiety | The Point Magazine though it’s somewhat insane, Bloom’s Anxiety is arguably necessary.

Harold Bloom: "In print, in television interviews, in lectures, the old sad-eyed pontifical critic decried and deplored the state of literary studies across America and the U.K...."
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Brandi Carlile Sings America the Beautiful at Super Bowl LX YouTube video by NFL

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Far-right ‘gangster morality’ and the search for meaning: why you should read Camus

Philosopher and writer Albert Camus defined gangster morality as ‘an inexhaustible round of triumph and revenge, defeat and resentment’. Sound familiar?

#OtD 27 Feb 1902 Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. Many of his works featured radical, working class themes, including The Grapes of Wrath, and In Dubious Battle, about a fruit pickers' strike: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9892...

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

John Steinbeck, born 27 February 1902.

Girl with umbrella

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck

Marie Bashkirtseff - The Umbrella, 1883. (Ukrainian artist).

Louisiana mayor convicted of raping 16-year-old boy at her home while still in office Misty Roberts, 43, faces sentences of up to 10 and seven years in prison after July 2024 sexual assault at pool party

Misty Roberts, 43, faces sentences of up to 10 and seven years in prison after a jury in the municipality of DeRidder found her guilty of two felonies: carnal knowledge of a juvenile – or statutory rape – as well as indecent behavior with a minor.
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Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.

How the War in Iran Spreads Beyond the Middle East Iran is poised to join a series of interlocking conflicts across two continents and 800 million people

News that the US is backing Kurdish fighters opens The Nightmare Scenario from a humanitarian perspective:

Iran becomes one node in an series of interlocking proxy wars that stretches all the way to South Sudan, impacting some 800 million people.

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Pride and Prejudices by Keio Yoshida | Book Both deeply personal and global in scope, Pride and Prejudices presents the life story of international human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida alongside an urgent,...

"...Pride and Prejudices pairs Yoshida’s story—from coming out as a lesbian, becoming a trailblazing human rights advocate, to later becoming a nonbinary transmasculine rainbow parent—with a treatise on the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ+ rights around the globe."
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Feminist 250 America turns 250 this year. Who actually built this democracy? Founding Feminists centers the women and gender-nonconforming people written out of the origin story—from Phillis Wheatley to Ona Judge ...

As the U.S. turns 250 years old, we're reflecting on who actually built it.

Explore FEMINIST 250, an online initiative from Ms. reflecting on the semiquincentennial of US democracy from a feminist perspective—continuing through April 16:

March 4, 1877: Hayes Takes Office in 1877 Compromise Rutherford Hayes became the 19th President of the United States with a devastating impact on Reconstruction.

"What this meant in plain English was that the people demanded the sacrifice of the Black man & the letter and spirit of the Declaration of Independence." -- Lerone Bennett Jr. on compromise that led to Hayes' inauguration #tdih 1877

#TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️
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