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Psalm 139
Are you content to engage in that most vile sin of this age—privileged disengagement—because the unprovoked atrocities being committed in Ukraine by Russians are too much to deal with? Then we are on different teams.
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I Sit With Her in the Dark as She Weeps
The count of those of us now living as refugees passed three million midweek last week. That’s Atlanta, Las Vegas, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio.
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We Start Over but We Are Safe
There have been several missile hits in our neighborhood and just up the hill from us where our kids' medical clinic sits. The appetite of the beast has yet to be sated.
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Welcome to Putin’s World: Dispatches From Ukraine
June 13 would have marked my 26th year in Ukraine. Crossing the border feels like sailing off the end of the world.
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How Shakespeare Can Help Us Understand the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Hold your loved ones close. Don’t lose heart or give in to fear. A life defined by resentment, envy, or revenge is no life. It will lead to nothing good.
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The Flame of Hope: Dispatches from Ukraine
You out there reading and wondering, I'm okay, just tired. My friends, these beautiful, smart, talented, kind people are hurting.
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Go Home While You Can Still Draw Breath: Dispatches from Ukraine
If Putin succeeds in hanging Zelensky and installing his puppet in Kyiv, would it even be possible to go back? Would it be wise? Would you, if you could?
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Slava Ukraini! Dispatches from Kyiv: Part Four
Clothes on our backs, two backpacks, documents, phones, water. Snowing in [redacted].
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Slava Ukraini! Dispatches from Kyiv: Part Three
Bombs falling in Kyiv. Ukrainians have been shooting down bombers and fighter jets with Turkish drones, and other anti-aircraft. National Guard here is fighting like men who are protecting their families.
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Slava Ukraini! Dispatches from Kyiv: Part Two
Last night was another filled with sirens and blasts and blood-chilling silence between volleys.
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Slava Ukraini! Dispatches from Kyiv: Part One
If my just under 30 years of living in this part of the world means anything, trust this: there are true agents of evil at work, lurking in search of whom they might devour.
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A Year in Reading: Iľja Rákoš
As long as there are authors, translators, publishers large or small committed to the deliberate word deliberately committed to the page, and so many who still need those words on pages, legal or illegal, right, left, or center, we’ll find our feet again.
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Beware the End of Art: The Millions Interviews Mark Slouka
Our own Il’ja Rákoš talks with Mark Slouka about the perils of MFA programs, the perils of technology, and the perils of maintaining a correspondence with the Unabomber.
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This Thing Feels Alive: The Millions Interviews Brad Fox
There’s baggage in every identity. If I only write about men, that’s unbearable and wrong. Taking on another perspective is fraught, which means you have to devise an ethics about it.
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A Year in Reading: Iľja Rákoš
I’d been out of the hospital following (let’s call it) treatment for COVID-19 about a month. My hospital ward of 50 patients had one oxygen concentrator. Despite my blood-oxygen saturation levels of 90%, that device wasn’t coming my way anytime soon. I checked myself out and went home.
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A Year in Reading: Il’ja Rákoš
I, like you, definitely don’t need to be made more susceptible to the predations of the truly sinister agents of corruption that are at work all around us.
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My Chernobyl
"Full disclosure: Chernobyl—the accident, not the HBO series—and I have some shared history." Dispatches from a life lived within 80 miles of the dead zone.
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