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Dhananjay JagannathanDhananjay Jagannathan teaches philosophy at Columbia. His essays on politics, religion, and literature have appeared in Plough, Breaking Ground, and Athwart, and he co-writes the Substack newsletter The Line of Beauty with Tara Isabella Burton. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja21zZ6mn5qVlsK1xQ%3D%3D

“I am no better than you and you’re no better than me. We are equal entities, just living with different identities.” Erin Chatters Well, well, well, look who came to India to travel with me! The traveling duo is officially back together again. For the newbies of the group, this is Ingeborg from Norway. We met a little over a month ago in Sri Lanka and had a blast traveling the entire country together.

“That’s a great idea for you and I!” But if you’re like me and hear such a phrase, you’ll bristle. It’s grammatically wrong. And this mistake is made all too often. The phenomenon came about because so many people got lambasted when they used “you and me” incorrectly when it was the subject of the sentence. As a result, we tend to overcompensate and default to “you and I” when we’re not sure.

For a while it looked like David Cronenberg might be done making movies. Some of the long filmmaking silence  that followed 2014’s Maps to the Stars was  understandable. It’s a much harder to finance films than the days of his low-budget first features, which were partially backed by funds from the Canadian government. In 2017 he lost his wife, Carolyn Croneenberg, and in 2020 his sister and longtime collaborator Denise Cronenberg.

A few months ago, my corner of the internet was completely fixated on Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the small yard services company in my home city of Philadelphia, where the Trump campaign accidentally booked a press event (instead of the actual Four Seasons downtown.)  In the midst of the noise of all the memes and roasts going around on Twitter at the time, one struck out to me:  I had no idea what this was referencing, but it seemed really inside-joke funny, so I showed it to my husband, who laughed.

A newsletter that's really a diary, where I chat about fiction, fashion, and feelings. Heavy on the feelings. By Jacque Aye · Over 32,000 subscribersNo thanks“Aquí podrás encontrar algunas metáforas del mundo real explicadas a través del anime, donde podrás sentirte identificado.” “I love reading about how other writers feel about writing. Diary of a Sad Black Woman is open and vulnerable, which appeals to me. Also, I want to support writers of color.

I needed to write something. It was all I could think about. It’s like that at times, an urge, almost animalistic. My thinking starts to feel disorganized and messy. I need to put the pieces in place to understand what’s there. Sometimes I feel vaporous, immaterial; only when I start to type do I coalesce into a solid. My imagination is fueled by observations, eavesdropped bits of conversation, anecdotes from friends, sights I see out in the world.