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A new quarterly of ideas and argument: the sharpest essays, from many coasts and many languages. Online every Thursday, book-length print issues twice a year. On letters and everything after.

Good reading needs good writers; good writers need good readers. A good journal needs keeping. This website is a beginning: a sketch, a prolusion. We invite you to imagine the MJL alongside us, starting from a question that is not rhetorical:

“Does anyone still need a journal of letters?”

(We happen to think so.)

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