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"I allow the Parisian shopgirls to choose my outfits, and now I will let the Peruvian shamans choose my insides. Whatever they’ve got has to be better than what I got going on now." theparisreview.org/blog/2025/02/2…

Report about the 2023-2024 protests by Columbia University Senate, an independent body compromised of students and faculty. Of note, there has not been a single attempt by Columbia University to address discrimination against Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian students.

Tufts University has issued a declaration of support for international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security last week. cbsn.ws/3FQNi4i

Very telling that this is considered a “win” for the Trump administration

I remember when I came to the USA being initially impressed at how large the fruits were at the supermarkets… until I tried them and they were gross. E.g. large seedless grapes but dry and with a fibrous texture

“Just pages later, she announces that she has aborted the child, ‘with a hanger.’ ” Danielle A. Jackson on Fish Tales by Nettie Pearl Jones. theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04/2…

im doing that horrible thing of rereading every email Joshua ever sent me in the last 11 years which includes many perfect crank emails he sent people. not this one, tho, which he sent after Mal was born, with the ten songs he thought the baby should first hear on this earth:

THE RUMORS ARE TRUE! DROPPING THIS FALL WITH A LAUNCH PARTY UPTOWN... last chance for pitches 5/30 <3

The Florida suburbs are not a consolation!!!

In praise of the cowbell. (via NYT Magazine) nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

For this weekend's NYT Magazine, I wrote about why we need MORE COWBELL: "When the fever reaches a certain pitch, complexity must give way to relentless repetition—one just-right note, catechized precisely like a prayer. Eso es. Just like that." nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

The cover looks good, too: t.e2ma.net/message/1rwxco…

🗣️🔔"Cowbell can’t tell a story, but it’s the sound that allows us to sustain one. To listen for the links between mambo and jazz, salsa and disco, funk and hip-hop. To stay in sync despite the traumatic breaks of history." nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

I can be either btw