Afternoon Tea (8/2/19)

Look at this great article about my friend Sara! A First for Broadway: The Trombonists of KING KONG

HRH The Duchess of Sussex Interviews Michelle Obama In The September Issue

The Artisanal Gelato Makers Of Mozambique

Rainbows, Frogs, Dogs And 'The Muppet Movie' Soundtrack At 40

See the poetry of England and Wales in an interactive map.

Afternoon Tea (7/31/19)

Wow, this is wild: Who Gets to Be the Next Poet Laureate of New Hampshire?

Here’s to Lizzo: Patron Saint of Radical Self-Love and Badass Flute Solos

A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?

Hahaha: Thank You for Calling the Writer Envy Helpline

Marvellous monsters

Morning Coffee (7/18/19)

House Holds Barr and Ross in Contempt Over Census Dispute

House votes to kill impeachment resolution against Trump, avoiding a direct vote on whether to oust the president

“Send her back!” Trump’s attacks on Ilhan Omar — and the response to them — represent a new low

Report: In attempt to separate family, border agent forced 3-year-old to choose between parents

This is horrifying: Migrants Inside ICE's Only Transgender Unit Decry Conditions

‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Sentenced to Life in Prison, Ending Notorious Criminal Career

Oxford University finally elects a woman as its Professor of Poetry

It sounds like MULTIPLE people behaved badly here, but I am horrifying by her behavior regardless of whether it's really why she got fired: Why Did a Progressive Pastor at an Important New York Church Get Fired?

What even: 'Gossip Girl' Update Lands Straight-to-Series Order at HBO Max

‘West Side Story’: Fox Releases First Look At Updated “Anita” From Reboot

Morning Coffee (6/20/19)

FINALLY, New Hampshire: Gov. Sununu signs bill declaring Juneteenth a state holiday

‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits

Prominent Uighur Writer Dies at Chinese Internment Camp

E.P.A. Finalizes Its Plan to Replace Obama-Era Climate Rules

Good for him: A Pride Flag is flying over California’s Capitol. Gavin Newsom says it’s sending a message

Which 2020 Candidates Have The Most In Common … On Twitter?

Librarian of Congress Names Joy Harjo the Nation's 23rd Poet Laureate (THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN POET LAUREATE. Sigh.)

GOOD: Nxivm’s Keith Raniere Convicted in Trial Exposing Sex Cult’s Inner Workings

Whoa: Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje stepping away from competition

In the Bronze Age, Bagels Were Tiny

Afternoon Tea (4/22/19)

I don't love this headline, but the piece provided very good context and updates: The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents.

Behind the New, Gloriously Queer Emily Dickinson Movie

I love this title: Killer Trees of the Revolution

Why It’s Time to Move Millennials Into Leadership

Fairytales on trial: the Good and the Beautiful in early Soviet children’s literature

Morning Coffee (4/17/19)

An important piece from Dahlia Lithwick: What Happened While We Were Waiting for the Mueller Report

Congress Subpoenas Deutsche Bank As Part Of Democrats' Probe Of Trump Finances

Trump moves to resist House inquiries, setting up fight over congressional subpoena powers

The Notre-Dame Rooster and Other Statues That Escaped the Fire

Mirjana Markovic, the ‘Lady Macbeth’ of War-Torn Serbia, Dies at 76

Not a great look! Bernie Sanders Accuses Liberal Think Tank of Smearing Progressive Candidates

Ohh, this is an interesting aspect of the strike I hadn't thought about: Jews face having to find Passover foods without Stop & Shop

!! Unknown Daphne du Maurier poems discovered behind photo frame

Wow: For months, she fell ill at work. Then, police say, she watched video of a co-worker spiking her drink.

Nepalese Expedition Seeks to Find Out if An Earthquake Shrunk Mount Everest

Morning Coffee (3/17/19)

New Zealand shows willingness to curb guns after one, not 1,981 mass shootings

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations

This is awful: Hate crimes unit investigates Ginsburg poster graffiti

AS IS THIS: GOP Tries To Gut Protections For Native Women In Violence Against Women Act

One British Ex-Soldier to Be Prosecuted in ‘Bloody Sunday’ Shootings

Beto O'Rourke Would Make an Excellent Mix Tape. But He Shouldn't Run for President (Yet).

How Trump’s Brand of Grievance Politics Roiled a Pennsylvania Campaign

W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91

Actually, Women Do Ask for Money. They Just Don’t Get It.

New Study Shows Lack of Equity And Advancement For Diverse TV Writers

Morning Coffee (3/13/19)

Senators Introduce Legislation to Finally Repeal the Hyde Amendment and End Wide-Ranging Federal Abortion-Funding Ban

Theresa May’s Brexit deal fails — again

DeVos Illegally Delayed Special Education Rule, Judge Says

This is awful: On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post

Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first

THIS IS WILD: The FBI’s college admissions fraud case against Felicity Huffman and many more, explained

What Does North Macedonia’s Name Change Have to Do with NATO?

WHOA: Levine Leaving Scholastic to Launch Publishing Venture

X-Ray Analysis Reveals Self-Portrait Hidden Under Artemisia Gentileschi Painting

Ooh, interesting: Watch Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson in New ‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Trailer

Afternoon Tea (2/6/19)

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

A Syrian Chocolatier's Legend Lives On In Europe — But Stays Close To Its Roots

A fascinating photoessay by a firefighter: To Smolder, Burn Slow

What Soybean Politics Tell Us About Argentina and China

Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’

Morning Coffee (1/19/19)

Thousands more migrant kids separated from parents under Trump than previously reported

Two interesting views on today: Don’t Give Up on the Women’s March

The Women’s March Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the ‘White Jews’ Are

Hoyer Calls Out GOP After Member Told Rep. Cardenas To ‘Go Back To Puerto Rico’

‘The Shutdown Makes Me Nervous’: Young People Caught Up in Impasse

The North Pole is moving, and the shutdown means we aren’t keeping up

Michael Cohen Reportedly Paid Someone to Create a Fake Twitter Account Calling Him Hot and Smart

Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who found solace in nature, dies at 83

'Look for Me, Please': How Indigenous Women Work to Help Each Other When Authorities Turn a Blind Eye

Anti-vax Movement Listed by World Health Organization as One of the Top 10 Health Threats for 2019

Afternoon Tea (1/10/19)

This story is QUITE SOMETHING: The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

I have limited sympathy for Shelley sometimes but this was fascinating: Wielded by a Wizard

A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia

'One Cut of the Dead' Bootleg Reveals Amazon Prime's Piracy Problem

She awed the country before Amelia Earhart even took to the skies

Morning Coffee (1/2/19)

Let's start with W.S. Merwin's "To the New Year."

Wow, what a story: Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path.

Meanwhile: U.S. Agents Fire Tear Gas Across Mexican Border

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu could be indicted. Here’s what you need to know.

Top Pentagon spokeswoman resigns amid internal investigation

The great Dahlia Lithwick on Brett Kavanaugh: What Goes Around Comes to a Halt

How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right

'Blatantly sexist': backlash against South Korea's sex education

Nancy Roman, ‘Mother of the Hubble’ Telescope, Dies at 93

Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street

Afternoon Tea (11/27/18)

The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination

This is lovely: Mosul, the city with two springs

A Mixtape for a Broken Heart

Ugh I don't want to start having to ask if my cocktails are vegetarian, too: The Secret to That Bright-Red Drink? Little Bugs

Marketing Emily Dickinson as a Children’s Poet

Afternoon Tea (11/16/18)

Romance Unlaced: It's time for historical romance Christmas anthologies

A Guide to the Met for the Crowd-Averse

The overview effect: what Earth looks like from space – in pictures

Hogarth’s London in the 18th century Latin poetry of Benjamin Loveling

The Best Cheese Events for Winter 2018

Afternoon Tea (10/10/18)

Very excited for her new book, out yesterday: Tana French on The Witch Elm and why she loves writing mysteries

These are beautiful: SpaceX launches and lands Falcon 9 rocket on California coast – in pictures

50 Years Later, Troubles Still Cast ‘Huge Shadow’ Over Northern Ireland

Alone with Elizabeth Bishop

What Strategy Could Either Side Have Used to Win the War in 1776?

Morning Coffee (10/6/18)

Let's start with something good! Nobel peace prize goes to campaigners against sexual violence

Oh hey, another good thing: Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for 300,000 immigrants

Okay, next three are Kavanaugh-related: The Guardrails Have Failed

No One Could Be Further From Atticus Finch

Exclusive: we re-ran polls from 1991 about Anita Hill, this time about Christine Blasey Ford

This seems not great! French investigate after Interpol chief Meng Hongwei goes missing

!!! Patrick O'Brian's unknown poems discovered in a drawer

Jane Fortune, Champion of Florence’s Female Artists, Dies at 76

This is so cool: Hidden Kingdoms of the Ancient Maya Revealed in a 3-D Laser Map

Ivy League Football Saw Large Reduction in Concussions After New Kickoff Rules

Morning Coffee (8/26/18)

John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81

Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin’s Plans for Midterms

Paul Manafort and Trump’s Pardon Pattern

Donald Trump’s Gangster Ethic Is Perverting the Jury System

How a Political Machine Works: Candidates Running for 21 Seats, All Unaware

A mass incarceration expert says the 2018 prison strike could be “one of the largest the country has ever seen”

Wow: Miss America: Leadership bullied, manipulated, silenced me

Why Elon Musk Is Reading ‘The Waste Land’

Hear, hear: Your Workplace Isn’t Your Family (and That’s O.K.!)

Summer weather is getting 'stuck' due to Arctic warming

Evidence in the bones reveals rickets in Roman times

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

Morning Coffee (6/26/18)

This is good but NOT a policy change; we must keep fighting: Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families to Prosecutors

Separated immigrant children are all over the U.S. now, far from parents who don’t know where they are

A Physician in South Texas on an Unnerving Encounter with an Eight-Year-Old Boy in Immigration Detention

Trump officials don't get to eat dinner in peace – not while kids are in cages

National Guardsman: Immigrants Are ‘Lucky We Aren’t Executing Them’

Supreme Court Won’t Hear North Carolina Partisan Gerrymandering Case

And: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Voting Maps That Were Called Discriminatory

Uh: At a Toast to Trump, the North Korean Anthem Has a Starring Role

Donald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89

Final Days of Ötzi the Iceman Revealed Through New Analysis of His Tools

Morning Coffee (5/9/18)

The New ICE Age: An Agency Unleashed

Civil rights groups sue HUD over fair housing rule

I love her: Pelosi on Democratic candidates who denounce her: ‘Just win, baby’

Eric Schneiderman Proves Why Male Allies Can't Get the Benefit of the Doubt

People think she’s a Parkland ‘crisis actor.’ It’s terrifying.

The #MeToo Poem That Brought Down Korea’s Most Revered Poet

Oh, GOOD: Christiane Amanpour named as Charlie Rose's official replacement

A search for native children who died on 'Outings' in Pa.

No thank you: Ryan Murphy Was Thinking About Making a Black Mirror-Style Show About #MeToo

Feeling Burned Out? Here Are 3 Things That Can Help