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@anandimish.bsky.social

Urbanism through popculture, lived experiences, climate change on Buttondown every other day: https://buttondown.com/StreetHaunting Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, Virginia Quarterly, Public Books, etc. www.anandimishra.com

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this is just so wonderful! a glistening, happy flower of a news item in this cesspool of negativity all around. @saribotton.bsky.social <3 <3

03.03.2026 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

03.03.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 17
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Not Jonah Ryan wanting to be 2026 pot*s. Though it does make one wonder how he'd have fared πŸ’­

03.03.2026 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The hallucination alone is a dealbreaker, obviously. But I was much more disturbed by the effect it had on my own sense of communication. Words are for connection. If you continually threw a rope into the darkness and no one caught it, you'd begin to think there was something wrong with the rope.

02.03.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Not Jonah Ryan wanting to be 2026 pot*s. Though it does make one wonder how he'd have fared πŸ’­

03.03.2026 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EAT, MEMORY (Published 2004)

Mira Nair on the pleasures of chai, from twenty years ago, but serving nonetheless β˜•οΈ
www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/m...

02.03.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nature’s barcode

02.03.2026 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You know what the greatest thing is about ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN? Literally every single scene.

01.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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The Complete Stories of Ingeborg Bachmann Complete Stories spans three decades of work from one of the most important German-language writers of the last century. Each of these short stories, beautifully translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Le...

β€œFor the first time in English, all the short fiction that Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in her lifetime in a single volume. Available Sep 29, 2026” (!!!) @ndbooks.bsky.social πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ™Œ www.ndbooks.com/book/the-com...

01.03.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Moss on rocks. First day of March.
#Winter #moss #mossonrocks #rocks

01.03.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My Mother’s Body A few years ago, I traveled to Skovsbostrand on the island of Funen in my native Denmark to write in a solitary residence by the sea. It was winter, too cold to sit in the garden among the priestly Er...

Read nothing like this. Louise Bokkenheuser is spectacular about the mirco personal details and how memory of a dead beloved puzzles us, haunts us.

www.vqronline.org/fall-2025/es...

01.03.2026 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

26.02.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 10172    πŸ” 1818    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 34

Dunkin Donuts: Sorry, we’re out of chocolate glazed.

Me: [about to lose it] No Mark, save this feeling. Use it for your art.

26.02.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1948    πŸ” 273    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
Satyajit Ray’s original hand-drawn poster for Aranyer Din Ratri, now showing in its 4K restoration at FilmForumNYC.

Satyajit Ray’s original hand-drawn poster for Aranyer Din Ratri, now showing in its 4K restoration at FilmForumNYC.

Satyajit Ray’s original hand-drawn poster for Aranyer Din Ratri, now showing in its 4K restoration at FilmForumNYC.

For my blog, I wrote about this and 5 other climate conscious movies:
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...

28.02.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Geetanjali Shree on "serendipity" as her mantra while writing:

28.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eco-conscious movies to reclaim your attention Movies that tackle the eternal, urgent question of nature vs. nurture while being cinematic and entertaining

🚨 As a cinephile who works as a sustainability communications strategist, I often find myself finding climate consciousness seep into the most unsuspecting of movies. For my latest blog, I list down six such climate conscious, very cinematic, films:

buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...

28.02.2026 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anahid Nersessian: β€œWhen Does a Divorce Begin?” Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.

So far the best literary essay on divorce and its aftermath. Perfection. Anahid Nersessian is πŸ”₯

yalereview.org/article/anah...

28.02.2026 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is such a lovely piece of writing about how we're shaped by the land around us. I'd love to just send this to people when they ask why I walk so much.

27.02.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for reading and sharing :) I'm so glad this resonates.

27.02.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walking in a new topography Does where I walk affect who I am?

🚨 Wrote about 1.5 years of taking walks through the rocky landscape of Gothenburg, so close to the sea, nearly always rained in and how it impacts me:

buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...

27.02.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Dan Fox: β€œWhat Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh” Dan Fox on learning his family’s many-layered language and picking up a portable inheritance.

Dan Fox on learning Welsh
yalereview.org/article/dan-...

27.02.2026 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Providence, R.I., Is Used to Snow. But Not 36 Inches in a Day.

β€œThe intensity of the snowfall felt almost surreal.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

25.02.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building."

www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

25.02.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1783    πŸ” 669    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 26

Face reveal. Wrong answers only.

24.02.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's early spring in many parts of the world. Feels good to know, read and see in pictures while we curdle here in a -2 degrees drenched winter. #Gothenburg #swedishwinter

24.02.2026 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: β€˜The Wax Child’ by Olga Ravn Ravn’s latest novel proposes that a deep, haunting unknowability is essential to us as human beings

πŸ₯ πŸ₯ Olga Ravn's The Wax Child translated by Martin Atiken has been nominated for the International Booker Prize! Here's my review for @artreview.bsky.social

artreview.com/review-the-w...

24.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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China is becoming a green superpower as Trump retreats from climate goals - BBC News How the world's biggest carbon emitter is now at the helm of a renewables revolution.

As Trump retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

24.02.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: β€˜The Wax Child’ by Olga Ravn Ravn’s latest novel proposes that a deep, haunting unknowability is essential to us as human beings

πŸ₯ πŸ₯ Olga Ravn's The Wax Child translated by Martin Atiken has been nominated for the International Booker Prize! Here's my review for @artreview.bsky.social

artreview.com/review-the-w...

24.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am

23.02.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1029    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

Maybe only in movies and photos on my phone

23.02.2026 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0