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A personal essay newsletter where the writer reflects on memory, family diaries and inherited objects, pairing personal recollection with historical research. Issues read as slow, carefully researched object histories and meditations on what people keep and lose.
Nor is a newsletter that examines Canadian design and material culture through essays and interviews, such as a critical look at the new Canadian passport and reflections on critical design practice. It also features conversations with scholars and archivists about objects that carry political and cultural meaning.
NS-Kunst is a documentary archive of art, culture and militaria from 1933 to 1945, and this newsletter presents individual objects with close physical detail, including their markings, makers and provenance. Several issues also promote items for sale, so readers get both historical object description and collector-market listings.
A weekly-style newsletter from the Object Diaries project that tells short true stories about people's relationships with meaningful everyday objects, often paired with podcast episodes and museum visits. It also offers a free guided writing prompt, One Quiet Object, for readers to reflect on their own belongings.
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