Flaming Hydra

My three-year-old son has learned the Polish verb zabić: to kill. He says it while hitting leaves and railings with a stick, and sometimes when he tries to hit an ant. I tell him not to kill it. I explain that it is alive. When I was seven, I was in the children’s hospital on Polanki Street. I had inflammation of the lymph nodes. I lied to a doctor and told her that it did not hurt, although it did. Because of that, the doctors began to suspect cancer.

Today: Amy Chu, artist and publisher of Camoot.Journal; and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, poet, activist, and member of the psychedelic post-punk band Trupa Trupa. Breaking Up With Brad Amy Chu Zabić Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Breaking Up With Brad by Amy Chu When you’re going through the biggest breakup of your life, it’s natural to seek advice from one of the great rom-com screenwriters of all time. I have just left Brad, and I am reading Nora Ephron.

When you’re going through the biggest breakup of your life, it’s natural to seek advice from one of the great rom-com screenwriters of all time. I have just left Brad, and I am reading Nora Ephron. I always knew I’d return to Nora Ephron’s essay, “Moving On, A Love Story” one day. When I finally left Brad—my Central Square, Cambridge apartment on Bishop Richard Allen Drive—it was time.

On February 7, 1982, en route to undergo triple bypass surgery, Henry Kissinger and his wife, Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, awaited a Boston-bound shuttle at Newark International Airport. Though his condition had not yet been made public, Kissinger, then 58, had recently suffered the latest in a series of heart attacks. The procedure at Boston General Hospital would require a lengthy recovery period, and Kissinger had been advised to avoid stress in advance of the surgery.

Today: Sarah Weinman, author of Without Consent, Scoundrel, and The Real Lolita. Panic! at the Airport Sarah Weinman Panic! at the Airport by Sarah Weinman On February 7, 1982, en route to undergo triple bypass surgery, Henry Kissinger and his wife, Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, awaited a Boston-bound shuttle at Newark International Airport. Though his condition had not yet been made public, Kissinger, then 58, had recently suffered the latest in a series of heart attacks.

The scary thing about getting older is that your parents do, too. As they get older, you might see them become more and more paranoid about their health—and yours, too. Those fears can leave them vulnerable to scams. A few years back, my mother became fixated on the idea that there’s been some movement of my bottom teeth in the years since I had braces. I probably didn’t do a good enough job wearing my retainer after I finished with braces.

Philip Ardagh’s Bunnies on the Bus, illustrated by Ben Mantle, is one of the most bonkers children’s books I’ve ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on. The tale begins on a sunny summer day in Sunny Town. The main storyline follows, as the title suggests, the misadventures of a bunch of bunnies who steal a bus. The bus driver, an elephant, shakes his fist at them as his vehicle zooms away. The bunnies proceed to wreak havoc on Sunny Town.

Today: Ilana Masad, author of the novels Beings and All My Mother’s Lovers, and co-editor of the anthology Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor; and Brian Hioe, Taipei-based editor, translator, activist, DJ, co-founder of New Bloom, and author of Taipei at Daybreak. A COOL NEW THING: THE PHOENIX Your Flaming Hydra has been at work on projects to preserve the values of the old internet—the human internet—for years.

Today we consider the aftermath of the 25 years of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 with a film review by Zito Madu, a journalist and author of The Minotaur at Calle Lanza. On Looking Away Zito Madu On Looking Away by Zito Madu I went to see American Doctor at the Angelika theater in Manhattan recently, a screening presented by Acacia.

I went to see American Doctor at the Angelika theater in Manhattan recently, a screening presented by Acacia. The documentary follows three American doctors who operated primarily out of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, a city in the Gaza strip, before and after the ceasefire in 2025. They are Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. The movie was directed by Poh Si Teng, a former journalist turned filmmaker, who funded the initial production with $150,000 of her own money.