Monday, January 8, 2024

The Essay in a Time of Genocide: Two Palestinian Writers and a Continuing Call

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Maram Humaid’s five-month-old baby in Southern Gaza [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera] For the past five weeks, Essay Daily has regularly featured pi...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Zachary Ostraff on Glass Eyes

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  In London, England, I find myself looking at a display case of 16 glass eyes. These eyes show a variation of color. The darkest eye is dar...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Andrew Maynard on Other People’s Children

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When my wife, Ally, began to feel contractions last month, she tried to convince herself they weren’t real. With baby #1, her water broke on...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Patrick Madden on Exactitude in Translation (feat. Eduardo Galeano with a Christmas Eve pun)

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I have just finished reading Eduardo Galeano's last book, Hunter of Stories , in English translation, against Karina's advice, and...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Dave Griffith on Thinking About Looking or The Essay as Ally

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  In the summer of 2017 I met Shaun King at the Chautauqua Institution–yes, that Chautauqua, where Salman Rusdhie was attacked and subseque...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Nicole Walker on the Insistence of the Essay

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I subscribe to The New York Times , The Washington Post , and my local paper, The Arizona Daily Sun . Unless you’re talking about how famili...
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Monday, December 4, 2023

Eric LeMay on Unbearable Thoughts and the Bombing of Children

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Embed from Getty Images Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023 “W...