The Public Hating
Originally published in 1955 in by Steve Allen as part of The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories. Reprinted here as a commentary on the tone and rhetoric of…
“You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker
“Oh, I’m great,” he said. “Corking, I am. Know what time I got up? Four o’clock this afternoon, sharp. I kept trying to make it, and every time I took…
The Pedestrian
Back in 1952, the great American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury published a short story called “The Pedestrian” in a small antifascist publication. The story, which was based on Bradbury’s…
Why You Should Watch The NeverEnding Story as an Adult
The NeverEnding Story was a classic children’s fantasy of the 1980s, right up there with The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Legend, and The Last Unicorn in creating a latticework of terrifying…
Confession of a Feminist
A serialized biography of Jane Grant (1892-1972), first woman reporter at The New York Times and co-founder of The New Yorker {read}
A New Leaf (1971)
women aren't funny, they're hilarious
The Cold War
World War 3
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba
They got knocked down. Did they ever get back up again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZr87g6rNo
The Way We Live Now
By Susan Sontag November 16, 1986 my gynecologist says that everyone is at risk, everyone who has a sexual life, because sexuality is a chain that links each of us…