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What I've been up to

A year of frantic revisions + some good books and movies

Dec 26, 2025 • Adin Dobkin

2024 in reading

It’s been a productive year, and this newsletter has suffered for that: a manuscript doubled in length from what my editor and I first discussed (and…

Dec 30, 2024 • Adin Dobkin

2023 in Reading

A bit of an odd reading year.

Dec 31, 2023 • Adin Dobkin

Sources Cited: Emily Brooks

A police department's internal magazine and the criminalization of young women

Oct 15, 2023 • Adin Dobkin

Sources Cited: Stephanie Barczewski

An exiled estate owner and an empire's conception of itself

Aug 20, 2023 • Adin Dobkin

Sources Cited: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Science reporters and the government's quiet search for a malaria treatment

Aug 6, 2023 • Adin Dobkin

Sources Cited: Back from a break

A recap of some stories behind the stories

Jul 30, 2023 • Adin Dobkin

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