On the Commons | Antonia Malchik

Recommended by Antonia Malchik

a place where books and ideas rush towards each other and I examine the particles their collision leaves behind.

Patty Krawec, author of "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," writes powerfully of books, narratives, identity, and more. I always find her writing and ideas challenge me while drawing me into intense thought and shifts in perception.

- Antonia Malchik

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of the forthcoming "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions and "One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large."

There is no newsletter I read that is more relevant (or more powerfully written) for how we act as humans, and how we will live together.

- Antonia Malchik

Chasing Nature

By Bryan Pfeiffer

Dispatches on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.

Bryan writes about nature in such compelling ways, but the reason I really love Chasing Nature is because he always takes an unexpected turn in the narrative. I learn something new AND think differently every time.

- Antonia Malchik

The White Pages

By Garrett

Writing about Whiteness. Writing about organizing and social change. Writing (occasionally) about the shirt Ronnie Van Zant wore on the Soul Survivors album cover.

Garrett writes in ways that are both honest and healing. I don't truly know anyone else doing similar work, or at least not as effectively.

- Antonia Malchik

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

I absolutely love this newsletter! There are plenty of resources out there encouraging us to follow curiosity, but none manages to pull me out of my malaise and fatalism quite like Mike does. Fun, self-deprecating, and fascinating. I look forward to every issue.

- Antonia Malchik

Elizabeth Aquino

This is a place where poetry, politics, caregiving, disability and the ocean intersect with the body. That body is mine and yours.

I love the voice and beauty of Elizabeth Aquino's writing, and in every newsletter she brings my mind to a turn, an idea, or a perspective I never saw coming and I end up thinking about it for the rest of the day.

- Antonia Malchik