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Issue XII — On Attention

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On Attention
Winter 2026
Mara Osei
The Distracted Animal
What happens to the brain when everything demands it at once?
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Tobias Fenn
Looking at One Thing for a Long Time
A natural historian's case for sustained observation.
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Ingrid Halverson
Correspondence as Practice
On the lost art of writing a letter that assumes the reader will think.
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Daniyar Bekova
The Clock that Runs Backwards
Geological time and the irrelevance of urgency.
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After the Clock Stops
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Interior Cartography
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Interior Cartography
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Pastoral Notes
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Pastoral Notes
Daniyar Bekova
On Not Deciding
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On Not Deciding
Mara Osei
The Patience of Glaciers
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The Patience of Glaciers
Tobias Fenn
A Landscape Without People
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A Landscape Without People
Ingrid Halverson
Clocks We Inherit
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Clocks We Inherit
Daniyar Bekova

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