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“The last thing we need when we're trying to make art is to feel ashamed by what we don't have, and yet here we are.”

This week we've got piracy, several forms of trash, cake, Sappho, texting, and more.

But the economy won't support it.

More people are accessing food pantries than ever, and it's not all cans and boxes. Here are some tips for storing perishables, cooking good meals, and getting creative in the kitchen.

Es un hecho que vivimos en un mundo en el que diariamente conviven diversas culturas e idiomas, aun así, desgraciadamente, ciertos grupos se rehúsan a

Not me either, but that's OK.

“Freelance rates, by the way, haven't gone up since 1985. That's when magazines started paying $2 a word.”

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

Scratch’s summer vacation (kind of)

“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”

Podcast Episode · The Forecast · April 22 · 58m

Taking the temperature of the literary internet.

“This is the only time in my entire life, I think, where I wrote long and someone was like, ‘Well, could you make it longer?’”

Journalists Latria Graham and Zaydee Sanchez Awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for Coverage of Misrepresented Communities, Including Black Americans, Migrant Farmers, and Transgender Latinx...

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California dur...