Turbulent Music, Turbulent Life
Early in E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End, the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, attend a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. For Helen, the flighty younger sister,...
A Work in Progress
Has the meaning of feminism ever been more jumbled than it is today? Any woman speaking up or talking back, whether about work, sex, criticism, culture,...
A Journey into Homer’s World
Like Tantalus, classical scholars are forever glimpsing things they cannot taste, or experience, themselves. Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient Greece that most freeborn males...
Clocked In Still Starving
My money beingThe nonviolent part of rageA kind of courtesy worshipOr caste-system blues Bullet casings in the combI learned their language immediatelyI watched an animal explode...
The Well-Blown Mind
The modern meaning of “drugs” is of surprisingly recent origin. Until the twentieth century, the word referred to all medications (as it still does in “drugstore”);...
Seven Centuries of Slander
How can educated, functional adults swallow venomous and fantastical narratives about their neighbors and compatriots? Five years ago that question might have seemed quaint; widespread belief...
An Affair to Remember
The story sounds almost too good to be true. Its ingredients are a boxful of old letters stored in the attic of his house by a...
Wondershare Uniconverter 13 Makes Working With Video Easier Than Ever Before
If you work with video files often and need a tool that can do it all and do it well, look no further than Wondershare UniConverter...
Apple’s M1-powered MacBook Air is back down to its lowest price on Amazon
SAVE $149.01: As of Sept. 2, a $49.01 discount and a $100 off coupon have brought Apple’s late 2020 MacBook Air (M1, 256GB) down to just...
What the hell is McDonald’s Grimace?
It’s what we’ve all been waiting for: We’re finally discovering more information about Grimace, the purple puppet man and friend of Ronald McDonald. It’s all thanks...
