What I keep coming back to is McCarthy’s refusal to offer John Grady an easy out. He doesn’t get to be right and win. He doesn’t get to reject modernity and find some pastoral sanctuary where his skills still matter. He just gets to be good at something beautiful while the world moves on without him.There’s a question buried in that: what does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it’s dying?

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a cogent exploration of relationships between israel, zionism, and judaism as framed through the cultural lens of Emmanuel Levinas

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in rural Northamptonshire. The 2024 event was overshadowed by cheating allegations, which helped make this year’s competition – the sixtieth anniversary games – the biggest that anyone could remember.

The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.

Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from Spirited Away.

Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of lost Anthony Bourdain li.st’s made me think on whether at least some of them we can recover.

Partial Archive of Anthony Bourdain’s li.st Content

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This article examines the phenomenon of “character amnesia” in China, where the increasing reliance on digital devices and pinyin input systems is causing many people to forget how to write Chinese characters by hand.

16colo.rs is a large online archive dedicated to preserving and showcasing historical and contemporary ANSI and ASCII artpacks, which originated in the culture of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).

TMFNK is a personal blog exploring self-improvement, learning, and awareness.

The Drift is a magazine of culture, literature, and politics. Founded in June 2020, The Drift aims to introduce new work and new ideas by young writers who haven’t yet been absorbed into the media hivemind and don’t feel hemmed in by the boundaries of the existing discourse. Our issues, published three times a year, feature longform essays and cultural criticism, short fiction, poetry, interviews, dispatches, and extremely abbreviated reviews.