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Bear It Somehow: Our Year in Family Reading

Dec 11, 2024 | lithub.com | Sara Franklin

Sara B. Franklin on Telling the Truth (and Making It Bearable) As I sit in my kitchen writing this, it is near dusk on Tuesday, November 12. It has been one week since the presidential election.
January Is Clearly Not the Best Month to Abstain From Drinking. You’re Not Going to Like What Is.

Nov 30, 2024 | slate.com | Sara Franklin

Skip to the content Drink Dry January. A monthlong break from drinking. A way to start the new year by returning to some semblance of equilibrium after all the holiday hubbub and excess. A chance to clear your head, and reclaim a little self-control. And why not? A few weeks without drinking alcohol may induce a feeling of virtue. You might even drop a little weight. Your skin might improve. All good things. But what if we’ve got the reasons right, but the scheduling wrong?
“It’s Not About the Operation. It’s About Us”: Rachel Somerstein on the Untold Story of C-Sections

Aug 12, 2024 | thenation.com | Sara Franklin

Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
The Radical Politics of the Garden

Jul 1, 2024 | thenation.com | Sara Franklin

Q&A / An interview with author Olivia Laing. EditAd PolicyOlivia Laing is an acclaimed writer and critic whose work focuses on art and culture. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Caampbell Prize, she’s the author of seven books, including three she considers a loose trilogy: The Lonely City (2016), Everybody (2021), and her newest, The Garden Against Time: In Search of A Common Paradise (US edition by W.W. Norton, June 25).
When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves

May 28, 2024 | lithub.com | Sara Franklin

In November 1960, almost a year to date after William Koshland, longtime staffer at Knopf, delivered the manuscript of the book that would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking to editor Judith Jones, he stopped by her desk with another book in hand. This one was slim—a collection of poetry, Koshland said. Judith’s love of verse was almost as well-known around the office as her interest in food. Koshland said the volume was the poet’s debut.
WRB-May 25, 2024

May 25, 2024 | washingreview.com | Sara Franklin |Chris McCaffery

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Washington, D.C., they had brotherly love, they had two hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The Washington Review of Books. The recording of last week’s WRB x Liberties salon, “Should you like your friends?” is now available wherever fine podcasts are distributed.
I Took a Solo Trip to This Pacific Northwest Island and It Left Me Feeling Renewed — Here's How to Plan a Relaxing Visit - NewsBreak

May 12, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Sara Franklin

Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
Ada Limón: "The Country Has Taught Me That Poetry Lives Everywhere."

May 7, 2024 | thenation.com | Sara Franklin

Thank you for reading The Nation!We hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
My Year in Reading Children’s Books

Dec 6, 2023 | lithub.com | Sara Franklin

It was the first of November, and forecast to dip below freezing overnight. Before school pickup, I went out to twist the last zucchini off the vine, and snap chard leaves off their stalks. It had snuck up on me, this hinge point of the year, it always does; the garden growing so fast, and my kids, too. It was time to put things to bed, to tuck in the corners of the year and ask, what have we made of the time, and what has it made of us?
Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin”

Aug 15, 2023 | thenation.com | Sara Franklin |Jeet Heer |Steve Brodner |Karen Kruse Thomas

Sara Franklin: In the essay “Thin Skin,” you excerpt from an interview with Marian Naranjo who says, “We were the experiments.” It struck me as a profoundly true statement about America: This nation has always been an experiment, and we are seeing more and more clearly all the ways in which it has been a failed experiment. What does that stir for you at this point? Jenn Shapland: The Covid-19 pandemic really gives you a lens onto that; how we are the experiments.