Years ago, a man who was then my fiancé gave me a mourning ring, inscribed with the name and dates of birth and death of a Frenchwoman who lived in the mid-eighteenth... Read more »
âThe ickâ is among the more than 3,200 words, terms and phrases added to the Cambridge Dictionary so far this year. Meaning âa sudden feeling that you dislike someone or something or... Read more »
Good old apocalypse: itâs always there when we need it, ready to give shape to our baggy existential crises. As the critic Frank Kermode once wrote, the end times are a âconcord-fiction,â... Read more »