
The former WSJ editor's independent newsletter featuring essays, poems, and in-depth conversations with writers, thinkers, and doers around the globe.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly | |
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| Issues | 284 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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The Fallen Tree, circa 1785, aquatint on paper — Alexander Cozens (1717–1786)
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The Fallen Tree
It’s not the moon
commanding tides,...
My dad, Thomas Edward Judge (1934-2014), with his grandson Max.
FROM THE TFP ARCHIVES
March 20, 2022
Not long before my father, Thomas Edward Judge, took his last breath, I remember him standing in front of a mirror, his 79-year-old...
John Berryman (1914-1972) Credit: Getty Images
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Achilles Me Thinks
for John Berryman (1914-1972)
There is me think...
Photo of a child in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2015, taken after Russia’s 2014 invasion of the region by Aleksey Filippov of UNICEF Ukraine.
By Sergey Maidukov
KYIV—The morning after another large-scale Russian air attack on...
Photo by Daniel Andraski.
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Stoplight on Highway 61
“For the loser now will be later to win.”
— Bo...
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Michael Judge is a poet, journalist, and former WSJ writer and editor. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Politico, NPR, and The Literary Review, among other publications.
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