Afternoon Tea (6/17/19)

Childhood, disrupted: Venezuela is in danger of losing a generation

This piece on George Sand is very interesting and now I want to read her; I basically only learned about her as a sidebar in Chopin's story, which is of course typical and terrible: Devils v. Dummies

These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ Away from Oklahoma

The history of candidate books: Confessions of a Presidential Candidate

‘She is an Outsider in Public Life’: women parliamentary candidates, 1918-1923

Afternoon Tea (6/14/19)

This is QUITE the interview: Françoise Gilot, 97, Does Not Regret Her Pablo Picasso Memoir

When the World’s Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished

On the Trail of the Quaker Aunts

The Vampire Birds of the Galápagos Have Fascinating Inner Lives

Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston

Afternoon Tea (6/11/19)

The Making of a YouTube Radical

This essay by Amy Whipple is lovely and important: Foster Care: Heroic Measures

How Nuclear Bomb Tests Are Helping to Identify Art Forgeries

The First Woman Cabinet Minister: Margaret Bondfield, 1873-1953

When Tea Reaches Its Boiling Point In Fiction, So Too May The Story

Afternoon Tea (6/10/19)

This is great reporting: Scott Warren Worked to Prevent Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert. The Government Wants Him in Prison.

A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused U.S. Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate

Inside The World Of Gillistans, Kirsten Gillibrand’s Biggest Fans

What Anne of Green Gables Taught Me about Grief

So neat: ‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab

Afternoon Tea (6/4/19)

This is lovely and I'm so happy for Emily: The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

The Shorebirds of Delaware Bay Are Going Hungry

This was really useful! How to Cope With Multiple-Project Paralysis

What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You

I am mildly interested in taxidermy because everyone always thinks that's what I mean when I say I'm a taxonomist, and anyway this book sounds good: Better Know an Author: Kristen Arnett

Afternoon Tea (5/28/19)

What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019

In Yemen’s war, a photographer finds points of light in the darkness

How Claudia Kishi Inspired A Generation Of Asian American Writers

I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers

Inside The Lost Jehovah's Witnesses Tunnels Under Brooklyn Heights

Afternoon Tea (5/15/19)

Argentina’s Economic Misery Could Bring Populism Back to the Country

How Casey Cep Wrote the True-Crime Book Harper Lee Couldn’t

In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners

This is such a tough aspect of apartment living: Listening to My Neighbors Fight (...I just realized I have two Maris Kreizman pieces linked in this post but I DON'T CARE, Maris is great.)

Discovering Cheese and Tradition in the Swedish North

Afternoon Tea (5/10/19)

Ancient Rock Art in the Plains of India

I love Laura Lippman: Game of Crones

You’ve Conquered the Escape Room. But Can You Escape the Lab?

Locked-Room Mysteries: A Beginner's Guide

Scenes From a Chechen Wedding

Afternoon Tea (4/18/19)

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

Poets in Power: the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic

Here's a great interview with the Fug Girls about their new book!

There Is No Purer or More Joyful Reality TV Show Than ‘Antiques Roadshow’

Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden

Afternoon Tea (11/28/18)

This is FASCINATING: This college student created a way for nonbinary people to speak Hebrew

I loved this essay: I'm a Great Cook. Now That I'm Divorced, I'm Never Making Dinner for a Man Again

Here's What College Freshmen Are Reading

'We had to get out': 80 years since the Kindertransport

How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash Cow

Afternoon Tea (11/21/18)

I love this: #MeToo Has Debunked the ‘Lean In’ Philosophy

12 Authors On The Books That Best Represent America

Food, Adoption, And The Language of Love

As usual, Todd VanDerWerff's pieces are smart and interesting: Why do so many animated films have great stories? One secret: storyboarding.

No Nut November: the insidious internet challenge encouraging men not to masturbate

Afternoon Tea (10/29/18)

The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting

Amandla Stenberg And Angie Thomas On "The Hate U Give", Code-Switching, And Using Art As Activism

My White Adoptive Grandmother Used a Racial Slur. Here’s How We Moved Past It.

Tana French’s New Thriller Looks At What Happens When White Men Lose Their Privilege

Quite the trip down memory lane: 100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It

Afternoon Tea (9/26/18)

This is beautiful: Mourning at the Magic Kingdom

Giving Malaria a Deadline

A Baroness, Her Skulls, and a Macabre Exhibition

7 Dark New Reads to Bring in Autumn

Never Heard of Bolivian Wine? That May Be About to Change

Afternoon Tea (8/24/18)

I loved this essay by a YA author marrying a politician: A good mayor is hard to find

If you're interesting in figure skating, this interview with choreographer Sam Chouinard is fascinating.

A New Vision of a John le Carré Classic

How to Dress Like Lara Jean Covey From “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”

10 Romances That’ll Have You Wishing You Were Back In College

Afternoon Tea (7/11/18)

This was fascinating: The Daughter as Detective

Lorena Bobbitt’s American Dream

He was one of Jersey's most famous poets. The FBI worried he was a communist.

The True Story of “A Very English Scandal” and the Trials of a Closeted Gay Politician

The Deep History of Women and Bread, Part One

Afternoon Tea (7/3/18)

How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus

I loved this from novelist Alisha Rai: The 4 Stages of Life and Debt

Interesting: We Timed Every Game. World Cup Stoppage Time Is Wildly Inaccurate.

I love them: The Paris Review Recommends Anti-Beach Reads

Ooh, fascinating: Making a Monster

Afternoon Tea (6/18/18)

This profile was fascinating: Lionel Messi: traitor to some, genius to all and carrying the heaviest burden

Ella Risbridger's column on grief continues to be great: Every day, in imperceptibly tiny ways, I become someone he never knew

Comforting Myths

Only 6 People In The World Know The Recipe For Portugal's Famous Tarts

Mary Robie and the Didactic Qualities of Reading Fiction

Afternoon Tea (6/11/18)

The Quiet Rage of Mazie Hirono

Why minor league baseball players haven't unionized

I liked this essay about routines: I Eat My Salad First

Literature's Great Con Artists

Campania's Secret Mozzarella

Afternoon Tea (5/11/18)

This piece by Laura Turner is incredible: Missing Hope: A Trio of Miscarriages, and What Happened After

I love her: Special Sauce: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on Not Pretending to Be Perfect

I'm not into horoscopes but this is fun: May Horoscope & Romance Reads Royally Paired For You? Yes, Please!

Lilac, the Color of Half Mourning, Doomed Hotels, and Fashionable Feelings

Fun: 50 Fictional Writers, Ranked

Afternoon Tea (5/8/18)

It's hard to describe but this essay by Alexander Chee was great and worth your time: The Changeling

The Dognapping of Kid Boots Ace

I don't agree with all the specific choices, but this is a fun exercise: 21 Books You Don’t Have to Read

Tchaikovsky’s Cure for All That Ails (the Stomach) Basically: Less vodka. Hee.

Diplomacy Noir