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VFYW: Milling About Town

How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

The Marginalian

How NYT Reports on Weaponized Famine So You Don’t Have to Give a Damn

‘This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light’CounterSpin interview with Ashley Nunes on public land selloff

With Friends in Media, Brazil’s Coffee Workers Don’t Need Enemies

The Pope, The President, And America

David Graham On Project 2025

I want to share your writing

Intrinsic Perspective

Fresh Sets: Tembe Denton-Hurst Celebrates 35 Boundary-Pushing Nail Artists

Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade

An EPA Without Science

New York Review of Books

Among Newly Discovered Ocean Species, a Baby Colossal Squid Is Filmed for the First Time

Kiran Bhat Is Writing the Diversity of Our World

Electric Literature

Permission to be ill

South Africa’s American refugees

Africa is a Country

Subscriber Writing, May 2025

‘Wonder Women’ Celebrates the Dazzling Figurative Work of Asian Diasporic Artists

Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

The Marginalian

Esaí Alfredo’s Oil Paintings Merge Mysterious Narratives with ‘Miami Vice’ Noir

Get Distressed: An Introduction to the Market for Thrashed Clothes

The Complicated Grief of Losing My Favorite Student

Electric Literature

An ocean in motion

Cars beneath the ground

Join Artfinder: The Art Marketplace That Connects Artists With Buyers

The other route to the American dream

Africa is a Country

Covering for Predatory Politicians Is Also Corruption

Floral Quilted Portraits by Maria A. Guzmán Capron Cultivate Care and Love

Isotopes, Vikings, Mars

The Marginalian

Recycled Materials Draw Attention to Ocean Plastics in Ana Brecevic’s Assemblages

‘Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump’CounterSpin interview with Bartlett Naylor on Trump crypto grift

The Ballad of Neko and Niko

When I came out as trans, I struggled to land on a name. I returned to one I had heard on...

Weekly Quiz: Polar Power Plays, Corporate Compensation, and Post-War Progress

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday....

Government ‘With’ The People

The post Government ‘With’ The People appeared first on NOEMA....

‘It’s enough now’

My mother would say, simply and unmelodramatically, to anyone she knew well, that she wanted to die: ‘I’ve had enough’; ‘I’ve...

London Review of Books

Mavis Gallant Left a Journalism Career to Tell True Stories

Through her fiction, she turned fact into art The post Mavis Gallant Left a Journalism Career to Tell True Stories first...

Ratmansky, Balanchine, Límon & Robbins

On Miami City Ballet’s “Spring Mix” program....

The Neglected Abundance Of Your Backyard

The post The Neglected Abundance Of Your Backyard appeared first on NOEMA....

How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?

Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...

London Review of Books

“The Brutalist”: Rebuilding, Repatriation, and the False Antidote of Aliyah

“The Brutalist” takes a stand for human rights and against the institutions that facilitate—or even rely on—the dehumanization of everyday people....

All civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear....

Baffler Magazine

the driver is waiting for me to come out, / for me to open the door and sit The post Leaving...

Corporate Welfare Is Canada’s Most Expensive Addiction

Why are taxpayers subsidizing big business? The post Corporate Welfare Is Canada’s Most Expensive Addiction first appeared on The Walrus....

Part 8: Why Do We Travel? For the Challenge

Guy Nicholson argues that meaningful travel isn’t about escape, but about transformation—the kind that comes from stepping beyond comfort and into...

Starvation in Gaza

The IPC’s results, published in summary form on 12 May, estimated that 925,000 Gazans (44 per cent) were already experiencing ‘emergency’...

London Review of Books

Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there isn’t a straightforward...

London Review of Books

The Limits of True Patriot Love

It’s too easy to fall in line, wave the flag, and forget about the country's problems The post The Limits of...

An oasis of the Bozart

On a recent performance by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra....