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The News: Loss and Salvation

Academia: People Are Not Samples

The News: Your Lives Are Robot Food

The Man Who Never Was?

Cookbook Survivor: Holiday Comforts

The Read: Margaret Sullivan, Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) From an Ink-Stained Life

Academia: History For Marketing But Not For Managing

The News: What Is Africa to US?

Academia: The End of (One Institution's) History

The News: Quick Takes

The Photo: Someone Else's Art

Cookbook Survivor: Some Enchiladas

Listening Day

Academia: Writing's Future

The News: Monopolist Says My Monopoly Good, Your Monopoly Bad

Thanks From Me, Thanks For Us

The News: Sinners and Stones

The Photo: Well, I Like It

Cookbook Survivor: Making Thanksgiving Decisions

The Read: Danielle Charette and William Selinger, "The Political Prophet Harvard Didn't Want"

Academia: Discovery Runs Aground in a Shipwrecked Age

The News: "Trump as Desecration"

The Photo: The Light in Winter

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Second Helpings, Second Time

The Read: Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide

Academia: What Flips the Switch?

The News: Win While the Winning's Good

The Photo: Last Call?

The Play: We Must Imagine Sisyphus Having Fun

The Read: As We Are Trespassed Against

Academia: Some Goddamn Republican Billionaire

The News: Heads We Lose

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Danny Meyer and Michael Romano, Second Helpings From Union Square Cafe

The Read: Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Academia: Expertise at the Margins

The News: Howl

The Photo: Blink and You Miss It

Cookbook Survivor: Black Bean Soup

The Read: Brad DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Academia: The Wages of Disaffection

The News: The Mysterious Things That Didn't Happen

The Photo: I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

Academia: The Ten-Course Pile-Up

The News: Not Who You Are, But What You Do

The Photo: The World Just Outside the Home

Meta About Virtuality

The Read: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

Academia: A Tale of Two Firings

The News: Emergence and Emergencies

Maybe Courses: African Diaries, Memoirs and Autobiographies

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Carlo Middione, The Food of Southern Italy

The Read: Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

Academia: Meddling and Mediating

The News: The Mysteries of the Post-Meritocracy

The Photo: Into Uncertainty

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Egg Quest

The Read: In Which I Beg For Advice About Something I Want You All to Be Able to Read

Academia: Administrative Designs

The News: In the Troll-lands

The Photo: Sign of the Times

Cookbook Survivor (Late and Small Edition)

The Read: Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Academia: Rankings and Nonsense

The News: Continuous Partial Attention

The Photo: Building's a Mystery

At Peace With Pokeweed

(Un)Cookbook Survivor Resolution

(Un)Cookbook Survivor: Building a Meal

The Read: Sarah Viren, "The Safe Space That Became a Viral Nightmare", New York Times Magazine

Academia: After Diversity?

The News: From a Distance

The Photo: The Magnificent Seven

The Watch: The Rings of Power

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar, and Naved Nasir, Dishoom

The Read: Adnan Naseemullah, Patchwork States: The Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia

Academia: A Faculty Search Explainer

The News: Ready for Democracy

The Photo: Went to Market

Academia: Back To School

The News: An Aside on Privacy

The Photo: Looking Through to Fall

Rome If You Want To: On the Thinkability of Historical Evidence

Cookbook Survivor Will Return!

The Read: Past Presentism

Academia: The Sources of Presentism in Historical Study (Hint: Money)

The News: A Rip-Up, Rip-Off Republic

The Photo: Washout

Maybe Courses: The History and Future of the Anthropocene

Till We Have Built Jerusalem?: A Short Note on Archival Digitization and Humanistic Research (Reading, if Not The Read)

Academia: Just One Cheer for Scholarship?

The News: Rising for Air from the Deeps of the State

The Photo: A Message

Re-Watch: Hot Ones

Cookbook Survivor: Other Peoples' Kitchens

The Read: Callie Bates, The Waking Land

Academia: "Adult Education" and Liberal Arts

No Place Like Home

The Photo: The Built World

The Play: Pokemon Go

A Short Break...

The News: Fragility

The Photo: Speaking of Animals, One of My Favorites

Maybe Courses: Histories of Animals

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Ramen (Insane Version)

The Read: Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Academia: Follow the Money?

The News: Last Call

The Photo: In Motion

Doctor Who Companions: Peter Lobengula

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Thomas Keller, Ad Hoc at Home

The Read: Moisés Lino e Silva, Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Academia: Statements and Syllabi

The News: We Can See Clearly Now

The Photo: An Ocean of Mist

The Play: Civilization V and VI, Stellaris, Endless Legend

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Building a Meal

Martín Arboleda, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism

Academia: Coaching v. Teaching

The News: Send In the Clowns. Don't Bother, They're Here.

The Photo: Unrequited Love

Cookbook Survivor: Foods From and For a Better America

The Read: T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Academia: Waiting for Heideggers

The News: Longue Durees

The Photo: All Those Buttons and Sliders

Maybe Courses: The Whole Enchilada

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Reem Assil, Arabiyya: Recipes From the Life of an Arab in Diaspora

The Read: Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

Academia: For Love or Money

The News: The Wider Insurrection

The Photo: Fire and Flowers

Doctor Who Companions: Edmond Modeste Lescarbault

The Read: Daniel Laurison, Producing Politics

Academia: Disentanglement

The News: On the Brink of the Cornfield

The Photo: As You See, So Are You Seen

Maybe Courses: History 8a, West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Stella Parks, Bravetart

The Read: Akinwumi Ogundiran, The Yorùbá: A New History

Academia: Let's Not Teach Digital Literacy

The News: Merrick Garland, Invisible Man

The Photo: Egghead

The Re-Read: Omega Men

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Andy Baraghani, The Cook You Want to Be

The Read: J.M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad, The Penguin History of the World

Academia: The Swim Test as Ritual

The News: Alligators, Bison, and People Oh My

The Photo: Shades of Blue

Cookbook Survivor: Barbecue

The Read: Herman L. Bennett, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Black Atlantic

Academia: Where Credit Is Due

The News: The Sacrament of the Blood Cult

The Photo: Summertime

The Play: Elden Ring

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Hawa Hassan and Julie Turshen, In Bibi's Kitchen

The Read: Susanna Egan, Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt and Identity in Autobiography

Academia: Retract or Attack?

The News: A Yet-Unbroken Chain

The Photo: A Story

Maybe Courses (The History of Pseudocide)

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: John Sedlar, Modern Southwest Cuisine

The Read: Andy Hines, Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

Academia: A Choice of Fig Leaves

The News: Some Customers Are Mostly Right?

The Photo: Past Peak

Monday Miscellany

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Working From an Ingredient

The Read: Jesse Singal, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills

Academia: Due Dates

The News: Lawless

The Photo: The Flowers That Bloom in May

Cookbook Thriving Resolution

Cookbook Thriving: David Chang, Momofuku

The Read: Michel Feher, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

Academia: In the Country of the Blind

The News: The Long March

The Photo: Dogs Who Look Like

Cookbook Survivor Resolution/Re-Read (Gotham Adventures #23)

Cookbook Survivor: Barbara Kafka, Soup

The Read: Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Cafe

Academia: Friends and Friendliness

The News: Montpelier Massacre

The Photo: Luck and Preparation

Cookbook Survivor: A Quiet Weekend

The Read: Mónica Guzmán, I Never Thought of It That Way: How To Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Timies

Academia: The Inevitability of Eminence?

The News: How Not to Sell Public Goods

The Photo: Rivers of Light

The Re-Read: Detective Comics #707, "Riddled"

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Cookbooks as Reference

The Read: Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Academia Supplement: A Big Mistake

Academia: Faculty Development and Curricular Change

The News: How Do You Know When It's Inflation?

The Photo: Filters

The Re-Read: Robert Heinlein's "Juveniles"

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: ?

The Read: Blair, Duguid, Goeing, Grafton, Information: A Historical Companion

Academia: Try a Little Tenderness

The News: The End of Determinative Asymmetry

The Photo: Magnolia

The Re-Read: Bad Endings

Cookbook Survivor: Reverse-Engineering the Popeye's Chicken Sandwich

The Read: Domenico Losurdo, Liberalism: A Counter-History

Academia: Rules And Their Breaking

The News: The Broken Promises of Containment

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

The Re-Read (Sort Of): The Batman's Influences

Cookbook Survivor: Hamilton and Hirsheimer, Canal House Cooking Volume 3: Winter and Spring

Academia: Histories and Mythologies

The News: Ex Uno Plures

The Photo: Knight in Shining Armor

The Re-Watch: Star Wars (1977)

Cookbook Survivor: Cooking For Kids

The Read: Howard W. French, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Academia: Healthy Debate?

The News: Giving It Back

The Photo: Take the Plunge

Cookbook Survivor: Open Thread

The Read: Faith Hillis, Children of Rus': Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation

Academia: Don't Study the Humanities, Advocate for Them

The News: Who Knows What Evil Lurks?

The Photo: Rites of Spring

The Re-Read: Stephen King, The Stand

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: David Sterling, Yucatan: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition

The Read: Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Academia: The Great Secret Dog War Vs. The Relationship Revision

The News: History as Distraction

The Photo: Equine Dawn

The Re-Read: Frederik Pohl, Gateway

Cookbook Survivor: The Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying, The Gaijin Cookbook

The Read: Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Liberation Psychology", New York Review of Books, Feb. 24 2022

Academia: The Flinch

The News: Same as the Old Boss?

The Photo: Fear of Cliche

The Re-Read: Todd Gitlin, The Sixties

Cookbook Survivor Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Marcus Samuelsson, The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

The Read: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything

Academia: The Trouble With Kinship

The News: Kindness, Grace and the Mask

The Photo: Stock Images

The Re-Read: The Postapocalypse as Adventure

Cookbook Survivor: The Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Rosamund Grant's Caribbean and African Cookery

The Read: Sarah Viren, Mine

Academia: If You Can Make Dungeons and Dragons Watchable...

The News: Short Ripostes

The Photo: Off the Beaten Track

Cookbook Survivor: The Resolution

The Re-Read: Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

Cookbook Survivor: Donna Hay, Basics to Brilliance

The Read: K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Academia: A Year of Repair?

The News: Politics Is as Real as a Cow Fart

The Photo: Rock On

The Re-Read: Vampire State (Captain Britain and MI13)

Cookbook Thriving: The Satisfaction

Cookbook Thriving: Edward Lee, Smoke & Pickles

The Read: Julia Bricklin, The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline

Academia: Scheherazade, Applicant

The News: What the Flies Learn, What the Pundits Forget

The Photo: The Heart of Winter

The Re-Watch: The Three Musketeers (1973)

Cookbook Survivor: The Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Josef Centeno, Baco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles

The Read: Anita Anand, The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and India's Quest for Independence

Academia: That Fearful Thought

The News: Smart ALEC, Diffident Democrats

The Photo: From a Distance

The Re-Read: John Bellairs, The House With A Clock In Its Walls

Cookbook Survivor: The Resolution

Cookbook Survivor: Deborah Madison, Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone

The Read: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Academia: Vultures, Vultures Everywhere

The News: Fakepolitik

The Photo: The Foggy Dew