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Spent the weekend with this incredible view of the Pintler Mountains here in Montana, but like every week I have an accumulation of very good reads to pass along — which you’ll find below.

• Truly I will read anything about Dr. Bronner’s

• A truly superlative profile of Tracy Morgan — the sort of piece that, while reading, you already know you’ll return to again and again

• “How 1,200 calories of edible brick became the most ubiquitous Mexican meal in America”

• The great Alison Willmore on the mainstreaming of Christian movies

• One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland Streets

• All I want is for NPR’s Morning Edition to go back to its original theme song

• Getting to the very heart of Game of Thrones’ decades’ long problem with women

• This week’s “just trust me”

More normal newslettering will be back next week, but I’m also prepping for book leave (to write the burnout book) which begins in two weeks — if you have suggestions for my reading list, either in terms of primary texts (books that try to address burnout specifically, in however hackneyed a form) or secondary reading (academic or popular press books/articles on issues that funnel into burnout) I’d so love to hear them.

In the meantime: if you know someone who’d like this sort of thing in their inbox once a week-ish, send it their way. You can subscribe here (which is also a link to how the way the newsletter lives on the internet, which you can share however you’d like). If there’s something you’d like to recommend — as a “just trust me,” or just generally! — simply reply to this email.