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In 2025 I fell in love with the techno producer Polygonia's Dream Horizons album: wide-ranging, intensely spatial electronic music that drifts in and out of consciousnessness like a dream. I read two novels that reaffirmed the importance of humor, lightheartedness, and sincerity in the pursuit of one's values: Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi's Mirages of the
... See moreTake Brian Eno, who I, at least, find remarkably interesting 50 years into his career. When I listen to Secret Life , the album he did with his protégé Fred Again.. in 2023, it sounds to me like one of the most modern and novel sounds in recent years—just as the album Eno did with Roxy Music in 1972 sounded ahead of its time (and is still... See more
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"What if what you do to survive / Kills the things you love?"
-Bruce Springsteen's 2005 song "Devils & Dust"
... See moreLast year I found my great grandma’s old diaries, they ranged from the moment she met my great grandpa until they got married, which was 16 years being together without a ring—from 1911 to 1927. As you may imagine, my great grandpa wasn’t the best man, he brought much pain to her and my family, but reading about it made me infinitely grateful for
The little kid I'm watching as I write this: crouched under his dad's legs—a man three times his size—trying to lift him up for a piggy back ride; Lonesome Dove; that Lily Allen album; the end of a relationship, the start of another; teenagers jumping from Monhegan’s dock into the wharf to send off the ferry; watching two pigeons kiss on the subway
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What did you encounter this year that truly moved you?
One of my favorite essays of the year was this one from the inimitable Mills Baker —an homage to his late mother: My mother could be reduced only to the scale of climate: you could not call her the sun or the rain or an ice storm or a hurricane, and nothing anyone has calculated or computed would generate accurate predictions about her. I think it’s fair to say that no one ever knew her, which made many want to. [...] Like me, she was very good in a crisis and very bad on a typical weekday; I believe it was she who introduced me to Walker Percy, even taking me to Covington to see where he lived, and he was well-aware of this reality: “It is easier to survive a category five hurricane than it is to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.” My mother was defeated by Wednesdays. — Jasmine Sun, writer
2025 began with 22 friends and colleagues losing their homes in the LA fires. After the initial shock, what stayed with me most and moved me the most was how people responded: the generosity, the creativity and then the resilience. I watched them all make something livable, and even beautiful, out of a terrible situation and it reminded me that all
... See moreAndrew Garfield Wants to Crack Open Your Heart
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This is the year I learned that love and loss come together, and that our greatest pains are the path to deeper love. A couple of days before the year ended, my friend Ophelia sent me this episode of Modern Love with Andrew Garfield, in which he reads Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss. It was bizarrely good timing, like a summary of what had been on my mind, expressed beautifully. — Lola Wajskop, Asylum VC
What did you encounter this year that truly moved you?
Part nature writing, part philosophical meditation, “Tinker Creek” consists of fifteen chapters inspired by dozens of journals Dillard kept in the early 1970s to record her solo walks around a valley in deep, rural Virginia. There is no real plot to speak of. Most chapters revolve around Dillard heading out to the creek and just waiting. For a muskrat to appear, a praying mantis egg to hatch, a morning light to cast its mountain shadow. “Tinker Creek” is, without question, one of the hardest books I’ve ever read. And also one of the most impactful, because it’s taught me the value of seeing—not just beauty, but also ugliness. Both are unfolding around us constantly, on scales big and small, whether we sense them or not, and something started changing in me when, like Annie, I tried to be there for all of it, even the moments that were painful. Here’s the piece I wrote in response.
- Lauren Crichton