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Monks In Jersey

Simon Wu | Paris Review | 3rd July 2025

Account of a long weekend spent as a temporary Buddhist monk in New Jersey. "There was more of it than I thought — my hair, that was. It fell in soft clumps to the shower curtain. As he shaved me, the monk explained to me that this arrangement was intentional and symbolic. It was supposed to represent losing vanity. But I could think of nothing but my vanity. I couldn’t stop thinking about being bald" (4,400 words)

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Why Are There No Good Dinosaur Films?

Brianna Zigler | Brianna's Digest | 28th June 2025

Everyone, other than the makers of Jurassic Park, misunderstands the cinematic appeal of dinosaurs. They are not supernatural beings or aliens. They were real and we can see their fossilised remains, but we will never meet them. A dinosaur film thus has to be about the fact that "there is both power and horror in humanity’s futile pursuit to extend influence over that which it cannot contain" (3,400 words)