The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
Described by Artforum as a "fairytale-cum-manifesto", The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions is a series of allegorical vignettes set in the declining empire of Ramrod, ruled by "the men"…
History Extra podcast: Queen Victoria’s secret love affair
Ever since the 1870s, rumours have swirled around Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown. Were the pair in love? Could they have got married? And might they even have…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
Are the Gilded Age interiors accurate?
The Gilded Age season just ended, but we have interiors to judge. Are these interiors accurate to the IRL gilded age. And more importantly, would Edith Wharton like them? We…
Circus of Books
Circus of Books is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Rachel Mason, written by Rachel Mason and Kathryn Robson and starring Karen Mason, Barry Mason and Rachel Mason. The…
How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Weeding is Fundamental Revisited
Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing…
The Azrael World
Joy Williams’s stories of angels, demons, and death
Poets Square A Memoir in Thirty Cats
By Courtney Gustafson