Archive - Jen Howard's Newsletter

May 30 •

April 2025

Earth Day and a new essay

Happy Earth Day!

Apr 22 •

March 2025

Shared spaces and good books

Mar 13 •

January 2025

Ice, fire, and Feiffer

Jan 22 •

Twelfth Night/J6

Notes on an insurrection

Jan 6 •

November 2024

Nov 21, 2024 •

October 2024

October surprises

I had no idea, when I planted it, that this blueberry bush would turn such a glorious crimson in the fall.

Oct 29, 2024 •

September 2024

Sleep, creep, leap

Sep 18, 2024 •

July 2024

Somewhere on the Northeast Corridor, July 25, 2024: I’m typing this on the train back to DC from Princeton, NJ, where I spent the last 24 hours poking…

Jul 26, 2024 •

March 2024

Gen Z in the library, "Housewife," and Stumpy

Mar 23, 2024 •

January 2024

Well, we made it to 2024.

Jan 12, 2024 •

December 2023

"The ending all match girls deserve"

Spoiler: It’s not the one Hans Christian Andersen came up with in his 1845 fable “The Little Match Girl,” a portrait of poverty-induced misery and fatal…

Dec 5, 2023 •

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts