On the Commons

Garrett writes about current events in ways that are both honest and healing -- he manages to take the "hot-button" out of "hot-button issues" and turn them into true conversations.

- Antonia Malchik

Through attentiveness and beautiful writing, Easy by Nature reminds me to breathe, to pay attention, to feel like I am alive on this planet, especially on days I sorely need the reminder. To quote Bill Davison on a recent post: "For a breath, our worlds align."

- Antonia Malchik

Plenty of resources encourage us to follow curiosity, but none manages to pull me out of my malaise and fatalism quite like Mike does. Fun, self-deprecating, and fascinating. I look forward to every issue.

- Antonia Malchik

I learn something new and think differently with every issue of Chasing Nature. Bryan writes about nature in compelling and enlightening ways, and his narratives take a turn into unexpected insight on the realities of being human.

- Antonia Malchik

I learn more from Freya Rohn's research on "forgotten" women in history than I could possibly have imagined. One woman at a time, she's restitching stories of human history that had been stripped of their reality.

- Antonia Malchik

Kathleen McLaughlin is a veteran journalist who's been reporting from the U.S. and China on class, labor, and the demise of local news for decades. You want to know what's happened to your community news and the American precariat class? McLaughlin's reporting has insights you'll get nowhere else.

- Antonia Malchik

When my heart is weary, Julie Gabrielli reminds me that it is through belonging--our place in this wild, beautiful world--where we most deeply restore ourselves. In Homecoming, she "explores the edges" of wonder and awe.

- Antonia Malchik

I love the voice and beauty of Elizabeth Aquino's writing, and in every newsletter she brings my mind to a turn, an idea, or a perspective I never saw coming. Her writing makes me feel more alive.

- Antonia Malchik

Whenever Swarnali's essays appear in my inbox, I know I'm going to find time to give them my full attention. They move through history, colonialism, grief, and beauty with equal richness and the weight of someone who sees the world clearly and fully, with a whole heart and open mind.

- Antonia Malchik

Someone said to me of Chloe Hope's writing on Death & Birds, "How does she manage to break your heart and then mend it in every post?" and I can't describe it better than that. Somehow, she cleans wounds and then heals them in each brief essay.

- Antonia Malchik

Informed explanations of the inevitable failings of self-driving cars, from someone who's been in the business, and why artificial intelligence and large-language models aren't what they're hyped to be.

- Antonia Malchik