True crime, as a genre, dates back to a series of plays staged more than four centuries ago.
This is the basic working principle of Elizabethan crime drama: the “truth” of what happened, conveyed in a bare, unadorned, unfeigned style – no “glozing stuff.”
↩︎ The London Review…
A small city in Indiana offers free “grandparents on demand” to lure remote workers to town.
A small city in Indiana offers free “grandparents on demand” to lure remote workers to town.
↩︎ ABC News
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Street photography by New York’s Eric Kogan.
Street photography by New York’s Eric Kogan.
↩︎ Eric Kogan
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Dierdre Wolownick, mom of Alex Honnold, started climbing at 60 to be closer to her son. At 70, she just scaled El Capitan.
Dierdre Wolownick, mom of Alex Honnold, started climbing at 60 to be closer to her son. At 70, she just scaled El Capitan.
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What’s behind the shortages of rapid Covid tests: “overzealous regulation and anemic government support.”
What’s behind the shortages of rapid Covid tests: “overzealous regulation and anemic government support.”
↩︎ ProPublica
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A few reasons to survive November.
A poem for your weekend: “Reasons to Survive November” by Tony Hoagland, from his collection What Narcissism Means to Me.
November like a train wreck—
as if a locomotive made of cold
had hurtled out of Canada
and crashed into a mi…
An odd little mystery told in comic form: “The Autograph Collector” by Ulli Lust.
An odd little mystery told in comic form: “The Autograph Collector” by Ulli Lust.
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