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"As with her ashes, putting the murder into her possession feels off to me. Did she own it? Was it part of her? It wasn’t something she could claim, like a package or a piece of luggage."
A new essay from Daniel Barnum, co-published with the literary magazine AGNI: https://longreads.com/2026/10/15/mother-museum-skulls-grief-agni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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"Neither the new government nor the grid of lots for sale were to be discovered on the ground. They were ideas in people’s heads, notes on paper. In the 'womb of futurity,' maybe. The forest, however, was real." https://longreads.com/2026/10/13/american-forest-development-property-hugh-maxwell/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #wilderness #america #development #colonialism #essay #history #longreads