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On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming

“Wild swimming” is a term coined by British nature writer Roger Deakin in his cult classic Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (1999), about his year swimming outdoors all over the UK. A paean to the joys of daily, year-round

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Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?

Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text…

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