Anna B
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Anna B
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.
The excess clauses are sometimes replanted or grafted nearby, not disposed of entirely.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
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
Have I allowed myself to be so lulled, so infantilised by the ever-present, always anticipated service of this luxury resort that I have surrendered my free will, my judgement?
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop
... See moreThis is the best poem on war I think I have ever read.
One might have hoped to turn to philosophy for a clarification of the nature of truth, and maybe even a celebration of it. But philosophy of pragmatist, analytic and continental varieties lurched into the post-truth era a century ago.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
It is the highest thing. Jesus agrees, proclaiming himself at John 14:6 to be the way, the truth and the life.