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Maggie Millner | Yale Review | 2nd September 2025 Mary Oliver is of a “small class of commercially successful poets whose audience consists primarily of people who do not write poems themselves”. Yet the literary consensus seems to be that she was “middlebrow, accessible, placatory”. Her poems are read aloud at weddings and funerals to smirks and lowered eyes from the poets in the room. “This embarrassment soon began to interest me” (3,700 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Nick Haslam | Inside Story | 8th September 2025 Loneliness is often defined as “not getting the social contact we desire”, yet this “could work equally as a definition of boredom or dissatisfaction”. It can be paradoxical: social trust reduces loneliness, but the “highly cohesive” Japanese suffer high rates of it. Loneliness entails a lasting sense of disconnection from others, yet brief, shallow interactions with baristas have been shown to alleviate it (1,300 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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