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Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity
Dear Republic,
Maybe you liked Calvin and Hobbes as a kid but you probably have no idea of the scrupulous moral integrity that went into it, as demonstrates in this deeply-researched piece.
-ROL
CALVIN AND HOBBES AND THE PRICE OF INTEG...
Thank You, Brett
Dear Republic,
We wanted to pay our due respect to bloggers, as Nicholas Frederick does here.
-ROL
THANK YOU, BRETT
The time following my graduation from college can best be described as jumping from a plane with no parachute, breakin...
This Week at The Republic of Letters
Dear Republic,
We’ll have slightly less volume than usual at some points over the summer, but focusing in on quality — and in particular on our monthly longform feature.
Today is the last day for our “Blogger” contest. If you want to pay...
The Wishlist
- Describe your imagination. Like if you daydream or your mind wanders or whatever, let us know what the shape of that is for you. Write in to [email protected] with “Imagination” in the subject line. Deadline is June 2...
Who Is the Funniest ... Poet?
Dear Republic,
We continue an occasional series on “who is the funniest [blank].” We’ve already had one piece on the funniest philosopher. Please feel free to send your pieces on this topic to [email protected] with “...
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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.
John Julius Reel, author of My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville (Tortoise Books, 2023), currently collaborates with Canal Sur Radio (Andalusian Public Radio) and has two YouTube channels: Spanglish in a Minute and Book Rants.
I'm a middle-aged man with two cats.
Prize-winning short story writer, author of a novel about artificial consciousness, and creative strategist. “Specialisation is for insects”.
When we write about things, we write about ourselves. When we read about things, we read about ourselves.
[email protected] / buy my book IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE A VICTIM. link in bio
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.
Serializing a realist otherworld novel entitled "Age of Peace." My tastes and sensibilities are in the line of: Chatwin, Naipaul, Kundera, Coetzee, inter alia.
I only use Notes here.
Author of The Sky Is Yours (Hogarth/PRH, 2018).
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.
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