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Recommended by Kathleen Sullivan

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

The Weekly Anthropocene

By Sam Matey-Coste

Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.

The Little Courtyard

By Andrew Forsthoefel

Everyone is sacred, each moment is the teacher. Be here, stay here, and don't forget to breathe.

The Crucial Years

By Bill McKibben

Working on Winning the Climate Fight

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

The.Ink

By The Ink

A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas

The Exciting Nightmare: a Series of Essays on Modern Times

By Baron Wormser

A year's worth of thousand-word, topical essays concerning Modern Times.

Baron's essays are all brilliant background pieces for understanding the radically altered world we find ourselves in now.

- Kathleen Sullivan

Considered Days

By Johannah Blackman

Life, examined

Johanna's writing is a powerful and lyrical testimony to how connecting to both our grief for this moment of Great Shattering and our love and gratitude for what we see and know around us inspires and renews us, empowers and affirms.

- Kathleen Sullivan

Field Guide to the Anthropocene

By Jason Anthony

A weekly essay/newsletter on the transformed Earth - as it is, as it was, and as it might be - that promises thoughtful, well-researched writing and a dose of pessimistic optimism.