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2025
“KITH AND KIN”
DON’T MISS:
Heather Shayne Blakeslee reminds us that we have nonhuman kin // We recommend sheep squeezing at Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm where PA Dutch farming is alive and well // We explore interspecies music and check in with artist Josh Dorman // Explore books that help us understand our evolutionary history, our fungal and plant kith and kin and why friendship matters // Artist Eric Battle takes on Revolutionary history in a new book about Abel Benson // Edna St. Vincent Millay writes about taxes and friendship // Philip Lindsay on ancient methods for a new democracy // Lisa Grunberger analyses what makes a family and a mother// Artist Shawn Theodore on how his daughter healed him // Chief Illustrator Christopher Clark Spencer tells a tale about his Grandma’s favorite ride // Artist Elizabeth Bergeland talks about her latest show and why she wants you to write her a letter // We pull back the covers on Anne Buckwalter’s quilt-like work and her quest to make sex more sane // Artist Sarah Detweiler on her latest show “UnMasquerade” and giving herself some grace //
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“2024 Storyteller of the Year”
“Brilliant! I loved the entire enterprise.”
“A joy to leaf through—and read. It is heavily illustrated, with a mix of photographs, drawings, and comic panels, and it makes creative use of typography. The content includes an eclectic mix of essays, fiction, interviews, reviews, and recipes, making for a strong new title.”
“A homerun.”
“An ambitious, meticulously designed publication about arts, culture, politics, food, and Philadelphia. It offers journalism, fiction, poetry, photographs, graphics, and personal essays by a diverse and youthful crew of creatives... Clearly, RQ also is a place for writers to stretch, or perhaps meander, and for readers willing to follow.”
“A high-production arts and culture affair with fiction, poetry and essays... A New Yorker for Philly? Root Quarterly pulls inspiration from higher-brow general interest magazines like Harper’s, the Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine and the London-based Riposte.”
“Glorious. This is exactly what we need right now... This is our better angels and we owe it to ourselves, and all of us—and our future—to engage with art, and with science, with truth and with beauty, with honor, and without division.”