Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.

Reports from the War for Our Attention.

Tech and politics for English majors.

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive twice weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Politics, women’s rights, foreign affairs, and law

I write my way through our dystopian present. And I eat my feelings when I can't.