David A. Garner

The Briefing: 3.21.14

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. When Zadie Smith writes something, it gets linked. This time on climate change: There is the scientific and ideological language for what is happening to the weather, but there are […]

Tyler McCabe

Painlove

Tyler McCabe grieves the death of his cousin and considers how the body conducts pain.

Jennifer Strange

Origin Stories

My mother idolized the pampas grass and my father idolized the peppers that fell when I was born.

David A. Garner

The Briefing: 3.14.14

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Washington Post reviews a new book about life in the minor leagues: Imagine: From your childhood on, you are better at the work you love than almost anyone else. […]

Ragan Sutterfield

You Should Give a Shit

How we treat our relationship to the cycle of nutrients—the food that goes into our bodies and leaves it—has more to say about our view of incarnation than do most of our creeds.

Jen Grabarczyk-Turner, Joyce Polance

Quiet Storms: The Paintings of Women by Joyce Polance

A look at recent work from artist Joyce Polance, who explores through female nude figurative paintings the emotional curvature and complexity of women in friendship and life together.

David A. Garner

The Briefing: 3.7.14

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A wonderful essay on W.H. Auden and his charitable side: W.H. Auden had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about. Everything about it was generous […]