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  • @the_new_yorker Play Catalogues: Sunday, November 8, 2026 #Culture #Puzzles #Essays

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    Nov 8, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily "Heated Rivalry" and Table Manners #Culture #Literature #Essays

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    Nov 8, 2026
  • @the_atlantic Memories of the Train #Culture #Politics #Essays

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker "Wicker" and What Straight Women Want #Culture #Essays #Criticism

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker Good Enough for a Tuesday Night #Culture #Essays #Reading

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @thought_catalog Roseanne Barr Asked Texans for a Ken Paxton Win as Her Birthday Gift. He Lost on Her Birthday. #Culture #Gossip #Essays

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker "Club Kid" Is a Disarming Cocktail of Grit and Fantasy #Culture #Cinema #Essays

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @ftrain_paul_ford Rupert Murdoch cannot have this. #Technology #Culture #Essays

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @ftrain_paul_ford It's still Tuesday in my heart. #Technology #Culture #Essays

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @the_atlantic An Absolute Beauty #Culture #Literature #Essays

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @longreads The Art of Letting Go #Journalism #Essays #Loss

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker Who's the Real Victim? #Culture #Essays #Society

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker Barry Blitt's "Sea Change" #Culture #Art #Essays

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily Letter From Byalystok #Essays #Philosophy #Literature

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @longreads The Top 5 Longreads of the Week #Journalism #Essays #Reading

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @thought_catalog Abdul El-Sayed Says His Little Brother Osama Is a Blood Descendant of Abigail Adams #Culture #News #Essays

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily Kazuo Ishiguro, Unlocked: The Butler as Metaphor #Literature #Philosophy #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Zohran Mamdani and the movement that created him are the architects of the Democrats' victory #Politics #Democracy #Essays

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  • @electric_literature I Need to Know How I Forgot I Wanted to Die #Essays #MentalHealth #Writing

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  • @chicago_review_of_books Holden Caulfield, I've Got Some Questions for You: On Innocence, Child Oppression, & the Impulse to Save Over Liberate #Books #Literature #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily The Reinhardt Style Guide, 2nd ed. #Culture #Writing #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Have I Befriended a Murderer? #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @longreads In Praise of the Dilettante #Essays #Journalism #Culture

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  • @looking_through_the_past The Comet That Wasn't a Comet #History #WorldHistory #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Judith Shklar on treachery #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Catspeak #Culture #Literature #Essays

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  • @ftrain_paul_ford thank god we can start infighting again #Technology #Culture #Essays

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  • @ftrain_paul_ford sometimes perpetual and seething hatred does the trick #Technology #Culture #Essays

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  • @ftrain_paul_ford Some nice distractions in here if you're finding it hard to focus today wayback-labs.sf.archive.org #Technology #Culture #Essays

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    Nov 3, 2026
  • @new_york_review_of_books Oysters High and Low #Books #Culture #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily We Have Acted In Perfect Harmony #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily In the midst of death we are in life #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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  • @thought_catalog Alison Thornton's Chris Hargensen Is Cruel Enough to Destroy Carrie's Prom and Vulnerable Enough to Make Her Final Plea Sting #Culture #Movies #Essays

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    Nov 2, 2026
  • @the_atlantic Fall Is in the Air, Part II #Culture #Photography #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Susan Neiman On Evil #Philosophy #Culture #Essays

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    Nov 2, 2026
  • @longreads A Night Living in Penn Station #Journalism #Nonfiction #Essays

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  • @the_new_yorker The Trouble with Saying What You Mean #Books #Culture #Essays

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  • @the_new_yorker New Jersey, the Diesel State #Culture #Environment #Essays

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