Anna Gát: What to Read This Weekend #53
RIP Navalny. This week we're reading about Russia and America, presidents and friends, marriage and loneliness, media layoffs and euthanasia — and Nietzsche, Whitman, Moloch, George Eliot, Socrates...
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Anna Gát: What to Read This Weekend #51
Critics, insects, self-promoters. Dates, eggs, moralities. Materialists, polyamorists, journalists, armies in the desert. And Pynchon, Taylor Swift, Girard... Penultimate week before the anniversary!
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I feel I might never leave New York City: I love it here too much! I’ve
Anna Gát: What to Read This Weekend #50
Week 50! 🎉 Interintellect in New York! And Orwell, Thomas Mann, Paglia, Parfit, pessimism, fat shaming — elites, parents, tweets, booze, brains, and other weapons — and more!
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Evening, folks! I’m still mostly in pyjamas: yesterday and the week before were tough,
Anna Gát: What to Read This Weekend #48
Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Piketty, American academia, American antisemitism, Danish fairy tales, baby heart transplants, autism, fertility, Impressionism, agency, CIA, galaxies, coeds, cancer, nerds & more
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Evening, folks,
This is the last Friday Digest before my New York trip. Busy days
Anna Gát: What to Read This Weekend #47
90s nostalgia, failing Britain, rape in the intelligentsia, language vs decline — and hugs, optimism, Pilger, Friston, Musk, Betty Ford, Elizabeth Bishop, Wong Kar-Wai, Thomas Szasz, Spinoza and more!
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Hello my friends! HAPPY NEW YEAR! What a treat it is to
Yoga, eastern medicine, and mindfulness are not panaceas
Because nothing is
This essay was originally published by Christina Waggaman on her Substack, The Body Electric.
I am seeing a pattern play out within the yoga, eastern traditional medicine, and buddhist-adjacent wellness communities. It goes like this: someone struggles with an ailment that they’ve unsuccessfully attempted to heal