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This is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can—this newsletter is not exactly part of my work hustle, but the distraction of financial anxiety does often contribute to my own sentences being merely pretty good rather than perfect.
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Perfect Sentences, 174
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Published: April 26, 2026 13:41
A correction: in Perfect Sentences 172 I mistakenly attributed a sentence submitted by Joe to Closing Time by Joseph Heller. It was in A Right to Be Merry by Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C. We regret the error. Voice has no relationship to becoming rock, so…
Perfect Sentences, 173
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Published: April 19, 2026 13:10
It became a structure of feeling I could no longer inhabit. Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, Caroline Tracey Runner-up sentences: I wanted to be a cowboy because I wanted to earn the West like a merit badge. I didn't even know whether I liked women,…
Perfect Sentences, 172
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Published: April 12, 2026 14:10
Violence, if we must, let's talk about it, but by seeing it first for what it is: a word. "Here and Now for Bobby Seale", Jean Genet for Ramparts, translated by Judy Oringer Via Zito on Bluesky. If the Middle Ages existed before capitalism, which is the…
Perfect Sentences, 171
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Published: April 5, 2026 14:19
A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organises iron filings. "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying", Kevin T. Baker for The Guardian Submitted by Anne. Even though you make…
Perfect Sentences, 170
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Published: March 29, 2026 14:45
The high sign that rules this summer is increasing fragmentation. "Apartheid U.S.A.", Audre Lorde It’s like watching a squirrel try to disarm a nuclear weapon—no surprise that he fails to do it, but the reader is left wondering why he even wanted to try.…
Perfect Sentences, 169
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Published: March 22, 2026 15:13
This was not an especially adept reading week for me because I was at a conference and conference brain does not lend itself to a lot of close reading. Thanks to people who sent submissions! A situation called scrotum catastrophe, in which the entire…
Perfect Sentences, 168
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Published: March 15, 2026 12:46
There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. Roger Ebert's review of The Mummy Anyone clothed by the US is literally NAKED! Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf on Twitter Submitted by R. This brain-fart-to-built-UI pipeline is so fast…
Perfect Sentences, 167
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Published: March 8, 2026 14:43
This was what I expected both from the examples of previous editions and from a press release emphasizing “transition,” “mood and texture,” “tenderness,” and other words that are not ideas. Review of the 2026 Whitney Biennial by R.H. Lossin for e-flux…
Perfect Sentences, 166
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Published: March 1, 2026 15:16
I paused, considering that I had been playing a reasonable game of chess for two weeks with a naked baby. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard The snow is like, the color of horrific industry, just a grotesque dark gray. Harry Siegel on the FAQ NYC podcast…
Perfect Sentences, 165
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Published: February 22, 2026 15:27
The placated, brainrotted viewer is expected to see only the projection, to imagine themselves into the role of kevlar-swaddled goon, even as they flop onto the couch in cheap sweats, furiously tapping buttons, the only muscles getting exercised the ones…