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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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Dear all,
Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.
The Editors
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.
The Editors
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 28 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Luke Buffini, ‘Damilola’ Joe Bedford, ‘Mating Habits’ Lillith Pollock, ‘On Wanting’ Lavanya Arora, 3 poems Thomas Storey, ‘Windwatt’ Gary Dunca...
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dear all,
Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.
The Editors
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.
The Editors
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
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Doing this soon!:
Save the date! Join us on 29 January at the Schwarzman Centre for our next Professor of #Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social. The title of the lecture is 'People Poems: Portraits in Verse'.
ALL WELCOME! Booking details will be confirmed in the new year.
ALL WELCOME! Booking details will be confirmed in the new year.
December 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Doing this soon!:
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Tomorrow on "Thinking Live" I'll be speaking with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about the state of the war in Ukraine, the actual battlefield situation, and prospects for a ceasefire.
December 19th, 10am ET.
snyder.substack.com
December 19th, 10am ET.
snyder.substack.com
Thinking about... | Timothy Snyder | Substack
Opening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
snyder.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Tomorrow on "Thinking Live" I'll be speaking with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about the state of the war in Ukraine, the actual battlefield situation, and prospects for a ceasefire.
December 19th, 10am ET.
snyder.substack.com
December 19th, 10am ET.
snyder.substack.com
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My favorite painter of all time: aftertheart.com/2020/06/18/h...
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My favorite painter of all time: aftertheart.com/2020/06/18/h...
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Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt
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November 27, 2025
November 27, 2025
Happy Thanksgiving.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
November 27, 2025
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November 8, 2025
November 8, 2025
A picture for tonight after a very long week.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
November 8, 2025
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@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”
So good!! 🔥
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Another great starter pack
Another Starter Pack for #IrishBookWeek: Literary Journals. Again, if I've forgotten anyone please let me know in the comments
go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv
go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv
October 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Another great starter pack
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Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know
by Mark W. Post
theconversation.com/hindi-greek-...
Ancient languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#history #language #Linguistics
by Mark W. Post
theconversation.com/hindi-greek-...
Ancient languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#history #language #Linguistics
Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know
This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?
theconversation.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know
by Mark W. Post
theconversation.com/hindi-greek-...
Ancient languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#history #language #Linguistics
by Mark W. Post
theconversation.com/hindi-greek-...
Ancient languages at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#history #language #Linguistics
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What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2
Poets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle
open.spotify.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2
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I can’t help but think
of that cruel fairy tale
about the proud girl
who trod on a loaf
to spare her new shoes crossing
a puddle of mud.
Down she sank, down, past
the Marsh Witch’s brewery,
to hell’s portals
‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
of that cruel fairy tale
about the proud girl
who trod on a loaf
to spare her new shoes crossing
a puddle of mud.
Down she sank, down, past
the Marsh Witch’s brewery,
to hell’s portals
‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Autumn Cyclamen’
www.lrb.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I can’t help but think
of that cruel fairy tale
about the proud girl
who trod on a loaf
to spare her new shoes crossing
a puddle of mud.
Down she sank, down, past
the Marsh Witch’s brewery,
to hell’s portals
‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
of that cruel fairy tale
about the proud girl
who trod on a loaf
to spare her new shoes crossing
a puddle of mud.
Down she sank, down, past
the Marsh Witch’s brewery,
to hell’s portals
‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter than scientists used to believe.
Why solar flares are way hotter than researchers thought
The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter than scientists used to believe.
n.pr
September 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter than scientists used to believe.
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📚 "...all the young writers - I could hardly get my work done..." youtu.be/R1Zbw39MCm4?...
#literature #Paris 📎
#literature #Paris 📎
Sylvia Beach interview on James Joyce and Shakespeare & Company (1962)
YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect
youtu.be
August 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📚 "...all the young writers - I could hardly get my work done..." youtu.be/R1Zbw39MCm4?...
#literature #Paris 📎
#literature #Paris 📎
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In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your practice if you're feeling stuck, bored or uninspired by your own writing.
The transformative power of keeping a daily journal
In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your practice if you're feeling stuck, bored or uninspired by your own writing.
n.pr
August 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your practice if you're feeling stuck, bored or uninspired by your own writing.
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Great poem here from Phillip Crymble
For #smallpoemsunday, an elegy for my grandmother that first appeared in @poetryireland.bsky.social.
July 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Great poem here from Phillip Crymble
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"Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
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Jeffries ends his nearly 9 hour speech by quoting MLK and saying, "We're gonna press on until victory is won. I yield back."
"John would've been proud," Terri Sewell tells him.
"John would've been proud," Terri Sewell tells him.
July 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Jeffries ends his nearly 9 hour speech by quoting MLK and saying, "We're gonna press on until victory is won. I yield back."
"John would've been proud," Terri Sewell tells him.
"John would've been proud," Terri Sewell tells him.
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We can all breathe again.
Yes, Marge Simpson Died In 'The Simpsons' Season Finale—But She's Not Gone For Good
We can all breathe again.
www.comicsands.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We can all breathe again.
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We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳
June 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳
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Follower by Seamus Heaney #fathersday
"I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away."
"I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away."
June 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Follower by Seamus Heaney #fathersday
"I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away."
"I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away."