Bildungsonline
“Stream-of-consciousness!” yells the protagonist of Patricia Lockwood’s first novel, No One Is Talking About This. She is, like Lockwood herself, a writer in her thirties with...
Cubism’s Poet
The French poet Max Jacob united, in both his art and his life, the spirits of the ancient and sharply contrasting commedia dell’arte figures Harlequin and...
Intrepid Navigators
“Birdbrain,” “silly goose,” “dumb as a dodo”—epithets like these reflect a widespread popular opinion that birds (except perhaps owls) aren’t very bright. Three recent books disagree...
The Wanderer
Jan Morris’s remarkable life was made up of many journeys, and now that the journey is over, two examples of her resolute walking are haunting me....
Rathlin Island
Here, where field drops to sea, where big applause, beginningless, of surf and gulls drowns the fledgling speeches fluttered from the stage our entrance made this...
Promethean Women
Here are some ideas for a social revolution. All schools shall be coeducational, with no fees, plenty of outdoor exercise for pupils, and emphasis placed on...
What’s the Difference Between Aukey and Anker (and Does It Matter)?
You found a battery pack on Amazon, but you can’t remember who made it. It was short, started with an A? Aukey? Anker? Something like that....
Zuckerberg feared Facebook’s conservative users, so they received special treatment
Facebook has long shown its preference for right-wing content, but a new report has made it clearer than ever. On Sunday, BuzzFeed News published a piece...
Is it Worth Reading if I Forget Everything I Read?
My partner and I are both book nerds–we met working at a bookstore–but we don’t have a lot of overlap in our reading. He tends towards...
The Perseverance rover just recorded the Martian wind
The whoosh of the Martian wind is eerie. NASA’s recently-landed Perservance rover is the first rover to record sound on Mars, and the space agency released...
