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NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, September 1 (game #813)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

TechRadar · Aug 31, 2025

How poetry can help to fight polarisation and misinformation

People are becoming more divided and ill informed. In January 2024, a report by the World Economic Forum identified misinformation and disinformation as “the most severe global risk anticipated over the next two years”.

The Conversation · Jul 25, 2025

Orion Sun Finds Inspiration In Poetry For New Album

Orion Sun, inspired by Audre Lorde, creates soulful music connecting nature, poetry, and personal experiences.

Top News · Oct 1, 2024

The rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of hardcore and punk

A growing movement of artists are embracing the music genre’s Black cultural roots

The Guardian - US · Mar 16, 2024

Van Huynh Company: Re:birth review – a swirling portrayal of the exhaustion of exile

The UK-based Vietnamese dancer and choreographer stages a piece inspired by the horror and dislocation of war with experimental vocals from Elaine Mitchener

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2023

‘Just take a bubble bath!’ Why faux self-care won’t solve our problems

Everything from journals to air purifiers, crystal jewellery to ‘poop stools’ has been packaged and sold as the answer to stress, burnout and depression. So why aren’t they working?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

‘I was born with death as my sidekick’: the ‘zombie’ with cystic fibrosis who turns pain into art

At 35, Martin O’Brien has already outlived his life expectancy. And in performances in which he attaches pegs to his testicles or smears himself with mucus, he brutally confronts his mortality

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2023

20 LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List This Pride Month and Beyond

From powerful memoirs to heartwarming fiction, these 20 LGBTQ+ books deserve a place on your reading list.

Marie Claire · Jun 30, 2023

Book bans have no place in Illinois

Books open our minds and are a powerful tool against bigotry, misunderstanding and “other-ism,” state Sen. Mike Simmons writes. Yet more than 1,600 book titles have been banned across the country. A bill would prohibit book bans in Illinois.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 3, 2023

Poets’ dress code: what the clothes of Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde and Stevie Smith tell us about their inner lives

A new exhibition, dovetailing with the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, showcases a skirt she wore to Paris in 1956, Smith’s collection of pristine shirt collars, and the symbolic asymmetric kaftan worn by Lorde after her mastectomy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023