Cannibal! The Musical Has No Right Being as Good as It Is
Having watched Cannibal! The Musical is one of those things that feels like a badge of honor. The movie was not something anyone saw first in...
Thursday’s Best Deals: AirPods Pro, Mario Kart Live, CBD Spiced Drops, New iPad, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Ulta Soap & Glory, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and More
Apple AirPods Pro and Mario Kart Live for Switch lead Thursday’s best deals. Read more… Source : Thursday’s Best Deals: AirPods Pro, Mario Kart Live, CBD...
Dosing Mix-up Raises Questions About Promising Covid-19 Vaccine
A manufacturing error is raising concerns about a promising covid-19 vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. Read more… Source :...
An Island at the Crossroads
Okinawa, the largest island in a subtropical archipelago south of Japan known as the Ryukyus, is seventy miles long and seven miles wide. At its northern...
A Well-Ventilated Conscience
About halfway through the Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, the eponymous narrator complains, “the main problem with...
The Right to Belong
If all the stateless people on earth were to form a nation, its population would exceed that of Sweden, Greece, Azerbaijan, or New York City—possibly by...
‘The Splendour and the Sting’
The name Charlotte Mew glimmers between fame and obscurity, and has now for over a century. She was born in 1869 in London and had exactly...
A Noah’s Ark of Books
For the past seventeen years, Reaktion Books has been publishing a series of volumes under the general rubric “Animal”—attractive duodecimos in uniform paperback editions, printed in...
The Body in Swooping Close-Up
The half-stripped woman picked out against the dark in Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia is viewed from above, yet as I stand before this yard-high canvas, she seems...
The Meaning of Home
In March 2019 Bryan Washington published Lot, a book of short stories set in Houston that created, in brilliant, fragmentary form, the portrait of a person,...
