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The Island Bookstore

I wonder, not for the first time, how he hasn’t run out of stories to tell.

This question’s companion is more straightforward: “Is this the end of America?”

Surreality would posit that this riot is just another unbelievably strange moment in a series of unbelievably strange moments

There was an ambiance in watching Sports Center simply because it was there.

SDSS, for all its millions of observations, has only mapped a fraction of a fraction of the objects in 35% of that sky.

But Herod—he’s never hard to find.

I’m much more likely to cling to fictional friendships than I am to real ones.

But throw it all in a skillet for twenty minutes and you end up with magic.

Doesn’t it seem odd that a story of a woman challenging Jesus is told as an example of her humbleness rather than her courage?

For a people whose survival was never guaranteed, this question is a radical call to evaluate where we are and experiment with what could be.