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    Recommended read via : Charles Simic on a tough, epic American poem you might want to know about

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    Aug 25

    Essential reading now: on the Pope and the Earth.

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    We tremble in fear of terrorists a world away while we arm our own cult of death right here

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    You'll find no better summary of current US politics than here. (via )

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    From Charles Resnikoff’s ‘Testimony: The United States (1885-1915): Recitative’

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    a piece I wrote in for Yves Berger's new exhibition - next month at Art Space London via

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  7. Aug 25

    “I know of nothing like it in literature.” Charles Simic on Charles Reznikoff’s epic poem Testimony

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    Aug 25

    ICYMI, this essay on is pretty much perfect. (Professors: Assign it!)

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    Climate Change: A Warning From Islam

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    The Pope and the Planet: on Francis’s sweeping, radical critique of how we live

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    Aug 22 Brooklyn, NY

    The librarians, to provide confidence & encouragement to explore anything I wanted. The books & resources inside, to do so. (2/2)

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    Aug 22 Brooklyn, NY

    I can't imagine a world with w/o public libraries. They were the educational equalizer for refugee kids like me (1/2)

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    Aug 20 Washington, DC

    The Presidential campaign has gone from peculiar to worrisome, and not for reasons you might think I think. …

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    Aug 21

    Best recent analysis I've seen, by far. "Cuba: We Never Left"

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    “Love, like the warm summer months, may not last.” Or so suggest two song cycles by Mahler and Berlioz at

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    Aug 21

    Smart, sobering essay by on 2016. Bad news when candidates line up against the system itself:

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    Aug 21

    This is one piece on ISIS worth recommending and reading.

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    At least 80 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000

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    Elizabeth Drew measures up the 2016 candidates, from plausible to preposterous

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    Besides fact that rape is never funny, prison rape jokes diminish a form of state violence:

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