
Passages is a place to gather around philosophy, poetry, and novels to explore ideas and build community together.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily | |
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| Issues | 305 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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Dear Reader,
Happy Solstice! We’ve been talking about solus (alone), but today is for solis, literally of the sun, or standing sun. Solis also means, “only, single; lonely; alone.” It is One, too. Our star companion, in a position of sover...
Dear Reader,
Tomorrow is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. And this is a long year.
I was looking for something in Hannah Arendt’s archive this week for a course I’m teaching in the fall, and stumbled across her lecture n...
Dear Reader,
Yesterday the world lost Carlo Ginzburg. And I wanted to share two pieces with you. An interview on “The Art of Slow Reading” from 2023, and an interview with Paul Holdengräber from 2013 at the New York Public Library.
Take s...
Dear Reader,
Of all the books I’ve stumbled across in the past year, the most meaningful to me has been Henry Miller’s On Writing. I felt as though it had been written just for me, and felt that he really got it. I mean that in every sense...
Dear Reader,
I think I invented a new word, bookscopes. Somebody consult an oracle. Today we have a super new moon in Gemini. Hello, summer heat. I view these musings as a little protest against what Walter Benjamin called empty homogeneou...
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