Anna B
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Anna B
We have never before had access to so many perspectives, ideas, and information. Much of it is fleetingly interesting but ultimately inconsequential—not to be confused with expertise, let alone wisdom.
Thomas Chatterton Williams • The People Who Don’t Read Books
It is a story difficult to put into words, this. I never tell it, in fact, or never have before. I told no one at the time, not my friends, not my family: there seemed no way to translate what had happened into grammar and syntax.
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
The Associated Press Stylebook, widely considered to be the gold standard among news organizations, is clear on its rule for the possessive of singular proper names ending in S — only an apostrophe is needed (Harris’), though there are always exceptions. The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting... See more
Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
The right and the left share a sense of creeping doom, though for different reasons
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Our initial findings suggest that open goals can lead to performance at least as good as (and in some cases better than) SMART goals
Christian Swann • So-Called ‘SMART Goals’ Are a Case of Style Over Substance
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of
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