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Why Everyone Should Watch Cycling
Dear Republic,
It's totally cool, entirely understandable, if you aren't aware of it — no worries! — but something very important is happening on July 4th, two days from today.
I mean, of course, that the Tour de France is starting. If...
Getting Cancer and Reading Henry James
Dear Republic,
It is an honor to be able to run this.
-ROL
GETTING CANCER AND READING HENRY JAMES
I assume most people who take reading seriously have guilt about classic works they haven’t read. The English novel is my shame. I’ve trie...
In Defense of Golf
Dear Republic,
In honor of the World Cup, which is humanity at its best, and in protest against it—for it is also, obviously, our absolute worst—this week we will be running pieces on various non-football sports. We begin with 's apology f...
This Week at ROL
Dear Republic,
It’s been Imagination Week at The Republic of Letters. What a strange and wild bunch you are!
One more week to send in pieces for the popular “Project” prompt. Write to [email protected] with “Project...
My Autogyn Imagination
Dear Republic,
Imagination Week continues with this piece from .
-ROL
MY AUTOGYN IMAGINATION
It is the forbidden love.
You put on a dress which you had discarded years ago and had meant to throw away because you thought it didn’t fit y...
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The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication.
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
Omnivorous reader. Words in The Metropolitan Review, The Republic of Letters, Beyond the Bookshelf, Seeing Through Film, and more.
Writer in Michigan. Work in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Commonweal, many other places.
I'm a middle-aged man with two cats.
I write essays about technology and the human.
When we write about things, we write about ourselves. When we read about things, we read about ourselves.
NR is the author of the novels The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio), The Rachel Condition (CLASH Books) and Lisa 2 (Calamari Archives) as well as Ramones, from the 33 1/3 series. He exists in the Manistee National Forest.
Illuminating dispatches on a society in despair.
I only use Notes here.
Pass the DDT, please
A writer trying to make it. It turns out that essays are fun to write.
I write fiction (literary), poetry (personal and translated), essays (speculative & journalistic), and memoir. Books: author of the novel Bones in the Dam, and collections The Quiet Storms of Rainer Maria Rilke, & Twenty Greek Poems, among others.
Essayist and poet writing on ecology, chronic disease, theology, and the ecstatic. . . Florida | Tennessee
I wrote a novel and some other things. I teach classes and pet dogs.
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