Brent Staples
@bstaples.bsky.social
Garden guy. Fellow, Society of American Historians. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.”
The experience of a chicken vegetable soup simmering on the stove - while a blizzard rages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
January 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The experience of a chicken vegetable soup simmering on the stove - while a blizzard rages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Time for that electric blanket
January 22, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Time for that electric blanket
Dante, bless his poetic soul, helped to construct it.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Where Dante Guides Us
The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human.
www.newyorker.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Dante, bless his poetic soul, helped to construct it.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Brent Staples
Anyway what’s amazing is that it’s a vampire movie but the real monster is the inescapable labyrinth of the Jim Crow economy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
www.theatlantic.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Anyway what’s amazing is that it’s a vampire movie but the real monster is the inescapable labyrinth of the Jim Crow economy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...