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Braais and the art of building worlds that don'...
There is no document that explains how a braai works.Nobody sat down and wrote the rules. There was no orientation, no handbook distributed at some point in your childhood, no...
Braais and the art of building worlds that don'...
There is no document that explains how a braai works.Nobody sat down and wrote the rules. There was no orientation, no handbook distributed at some point in your childhood, no...
An email about The Divine Comedy and Mrs. Ball'...
At the start of the 1300s, Dante Alighieri made a decision that scandalized the literary establishment of his time. He chose to write in Italian (specifically the Tuscan dialect of...
An email about The Divine Comedy and Mrs. Ball'...
At the start of the 1300s, Dante Alighieri made a decision that scandalized the literary establishment of his time. He chose to write in Italian (specifically the Tuscan dialect of...
The results are in (and I owe you an answer)
Last week I asked you to tell me what you read. I said there were no wrong answers. I meant it. And then you answered, and I've been thinking about...
The results are in (and I owe you an answer)
Last week I asked you to tell me what you read. I said there were no wrong answers. I meant it. And then you answered, and I've been thinking about...
No wrong answers
You read a certain kind of book, and maybe it's the first thing you'd admit about yourself. Maybe it's the last. But there's a shelf somewhere, real or imagined, that...
No wrong answers
You read a certain kind of book, and maybe it's the first thing you'd admit about yourself. Maybe it's the last. But there's a shelf somewhere, real or imagined, that...
What happens to reading if everything becomes c...
I did that thing the other night where I opened my phone “just for a second” to check something, and then resurfaced about 27 minutes later after watching a woman...
What happens to reading if everything becomes c...
I did that thing the other night where I opened my phone “just for a second” to check something, and then resurfaced about 27 minutes later after watching a woman...
Fact and fiction walked into a bar...
Fiction was already at the bar when Fact arrived.“Late again,” she said, tilting her glass toward him. “Did you calculate the optimal time to arrive, or did the narrative just...
Fact and fiction walked into a bar...
Fiction was already at the bar when Fact arrived.“Late again,” she said, tilting her glass toward him. “Did you calculate the optimal time to arrive, or did the narrative just...