Strange Clarity

Iceland’s Half-Million Names

A dispatch from my summer sojourn

7 hrs ago • Laura Moore

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June 2026

How to meander without getting lost

What Zadie Smith and Rebecca Solnit know about shape

Jun 25 • Laura Moore

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Encountering an ancient debate about brainrot

How reading Plato refocuses AI anxiety

Jun 19 • Laura Moore

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May 2026

Would you play a video game about a medieval nun?

Or: what I'm working on these days

May 29 • Laura Moore

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April 2026

What happens when I try to write fiction

A pair of mannequins takes a short walk outside

Apr 16 • Laura Moore

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March 2026

The Category Error, Part 2: Life before breadwinners

Before the breadwinner family, households were economic enterprises where men and women worked together. How industrialization created modern gender…

Mar 4 • Laura Moore

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February 2026

The Category Error, Part 1: Why gender explains less than we think

The first in a multi-part series tackling the logical fallacy at the heart of our gender debates, and offering a proposal for moving forward

Feb 4 • Laura Moore

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January 2026

A House with Many Wings

The disappearing versions of me

Jan 23 • Laura Moore

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The return of the Why mode of thinking

My desire and even ability to write disappeared for months. Is it back?

Jan 5 • Laura Moore

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November 2025

Passing from words to matter

My first byline, my current obsession with making miniature things

Nov 7, 2025 • Laura Moore

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September 2025

The compulsion to capture: from cave walls to camera rolls

On photography as shield, solace, and the ancient urge to depict the world

Sep 17, 2025 • Laura Moore

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Work is broken: Marx, alienation, and the Great Pretending

How a viral post on the death of the corporate job echoes Marx’s 19th-century critique

Sep 4, 2025 • Laura Moore

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