A personal newsletter mixing poems, short prose and opinion essays on culture, belief and society. Recent issues cover tipping economics, brainwashing and conformity, and an atmospheric poem on grief and loss.
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Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
Personal essays that use art, philosophy, literature and pop culture to examine experiences that are hard to put into words, such as talent, desire and love. Readers get reflective, richly referenced writing with a distinct authorial voice.
Personal essays on rural life in southern New Hampshire, drawing on the seasons, woods, ponds and memory. Each issue is a reflective piece on topics like a 50th high school reunion, autumn at the pond and an abandoned canoe.
A personal newsletter of essays, comics and Torah reflections by Rena Yehuda Newman, covering grief, mourning, Jewish ritual time and life in diaspora. Recent issues include a eulogy for the author's brother, a meditation on Tisha b'Av, and reflections on keeping Shabbat in rural England.
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