Monthly Archives: July 2025

What I’m Reading: I was on my bike, trying to grow back into somethingI had grown out of, like a hermit crab rewound. — Hedgie Choi / “In My Natural Habitat”

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I was having a moment,so I went homeand covered myself in princess stickers. — Matt Broaddus / “Emotional Rescue” “The message we keep hearing is that the nuclear risk is over, that that’s an … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: The Administration—Stephen Miller and others—are already calling on other red states to do the same. The federal government would give these states money, in part, to open these facilities. And the money is largely coming from FEMA’s … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: The health of the troops depends so much upon keeping themselves clean that too much pains cannot be taken for that purpose… As every kind of Sloveness or Inattention will be severely punished — The Officer of … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: There are daysWhen the voiceless end upSpeaking under the weight of contemptAs we know, no worse torture exists — Abdourahman A. Waberi / “A Touch of Salt on My Confession”

What I’m Reading: Next he was sitting in on a congressionalHearing on whether to classify pancakesAs cake. A conservative senator warned ofA slippery slope. What next? he said,Icing on biscuits? — Ishmael Reed / “The Diabetic Dreams of Cake”

What I’m Reading: Death is not an emergency but the body limping againstits own walls as it realizes freedom. — Feranmi Ariyo / “Fission”

What I’m Reading: Scientists said “heat domes” and related atmospheric events behind extreme weather around the world had almost tripled in strength and duration since the 1950s, as tens of millions of people sweltered in “dangerous heat” in parts of … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Two brass rings:ornaments, curatives, punishment,what’s the difference,pain swims for a microscope.The rings around Saturn swim too,a girdle of mist which hurts space. — Fanny Howe / “Original” That’s what white supremacy, what racism is. … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: Even so, even the thousands of fragments of images AI would use to make a non-existent child had to have come from children who’d been complete children once. Where were they now? All of them, the maybe-real … Continue reading →