So the Light Won’t Leave Me https://arablit.org/2025/09/22..../so-the-light-wont-l

Overcoming Procrastination With Colleen M. Story https://www.thecreativepenn.co....m/2025/09/22/overcom

Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery The “primary purpose” of New World slaves, Sidney Mintz wrote, was to serve as manual laborers engaged…in the production of market commodities…Slaves were not primarily a source of prestige, of sexual satisfaction, of sadistic impulses, or of anything else but profit, and profit in a frankly capitalistic system, even though the curious view that slavery […]
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John J. Lennon on Humanity in Prison and the Sensationalism of the True Crime Genre In 2019, I was editing articles about criminal justice for the website of The Atlantic when a colleague, David A. Graham, sent me an email that started: “I’m passing along this pitch from a fellow writer. He’s an unusual dude.” The fellow writer was a journalist named John J. Lennon; what made him unusual was that […]
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“The Many Sick Mothers of My Heart.” Life at the Intersection of Sickness and Trauma In many ways, I’ve known sickness my whole life. Born with eczema that covered my arms and legs in red, rashy welts, peaking as a teenager and returning, uninvited, throughout my adulthood. As a teen, I had regular tonsil infections, two strains of mononucleosis at the same time—“I’ve never seen this before,” remarked my doctor—and […]
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