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The art of reporting online

Help preserve and improve journalism in the Internet age. Apply to work with Josh Benton on the Nieman Foundation’s Digital Journalism Project.

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Whither Iris Murdoch’s letters? Levi Stahl investigates.

Last week Levi Stahl of I’ve Been Reading Lately ran a delightful series of excerpts from writers’ letters. Selections ranged from the chatty, catty, and caustic to the bereft but self-deprecating. His series was inspired by the publication of Penelope Fitzgerald’s letters (image above), and correspondence with writer Jenny Davidson.   Coincidentally, Stahl and I recently exchanged some email about . . .

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R.I.P. Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died. VQR posts “With the Mist So Dense on the Bridge,” the title poem of his last collection.

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