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The poems in Jason Sommer’s Portulans are charged with a muted tension, often relinquishing themselves into resigned tenderness and sighs that are less sighs of relief at the end of a journey... Read more »
“Weird fiction is unusual, too, in how the unknown may be both horrific and incredibly beautiful.” Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer the New Yorker called... Read more »
i found god in myself & i loved her/i loved her fiercely ―Ntozake Shange Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ―Toni Morrison Martha... Read more »
Peach melba, as all the world surely knows, was invented in the early 1890s by Auguste Escoffier, the French chef of the Savoy hotel, for the superstar Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba.... Read more »
An acclaimed nonfiction graphic novel about Gaza, which pioneered the medium of “comics journalism”, has been rushed back into print after surging demand since the fresh outbreak of the conflict two months... Read more »
On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion of... Read more »
In the nineteenth century, when a character had premarital sex, you held your breath not for an abortion but for a wedding. Think of “Pride and Prejudice,” where Lydia’s child marriage comes... Read more »