August 21, 2025 – "We aligned the crabs one by one along a ruler before tagging them, measuring the length of their murky, ...

August 19, 2025 – "Suddenly I thought I should probably ride a bull. Or, more accurately, I suddenly found that I was going ...

Think of the fierce and implacable Lyanna Mormont, the child ruler played by Bella Ramsey in Game of Thrones. Think of the ...

Just like In Search of Lost Time, the narrative trajectory of Drake’s albums shows us an arriviste filled with hope and ...

We begin the essay with an uncited photograph from history. Roland Barthes speaks of photographs of children from history, their innocence and morbidity. To look at an old photograph of children is to ...

Mary Ruefle, the poet and essayist, also makes unique hand-altered books: she sources, from thrift shops and used bookstores, secondhand texts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

April 26, 2012 – Paint Samples, suitable for the home, sourced from colors in literature. As seen in our two-hundredth issue. City Fingers Delta Khaki Navy Rayon Limpopo ...

January 18, 2013 – Here is a mood index chart for Les Misérables. Red indicates negative emotions. There is a reason miserable is in the title.

The other night, Richard and I watched Paper Moon (1973) on Kanopy, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The film is brilliantly shot, written, directed, and, most transportingly, acted—by Tatum O’Neal and ...