Courier (film)
Courier (Russian: Курьер, romanized: Kuryer), also known as Messenger Boy, is a 1986 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov based on a screenplay by Alexander Borodyansky and Shakhnazarov's short…
Summer Fires
Giulia Sagramola
Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies
Anaïs Nin, the author of works such as Delta of Venus and House of Incest, is the patron saint of taboo-breaking pop culture sexual iconoclasts. Not only is she an…
Literary MagNet: Dong Li
In translating Ye Hui’s poems from the Chinese in the collection The Ruins (Phoneme Media, November 2025), Dong Li wanted to foreground a writer he says is an “underdog” in…
History Extra podcast: Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe
If you lived in 16th-century London, would you have any idea what was happening in Paris, Venice or Frankfurt? Well, yes, according to Joad Raymond Wren – and that news…
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
The Enigma of Amigara Fault This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in…
My Brilliant Fiend
Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic
Texas Excess
Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology
Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
Analyzing the French in Mad Men’s ‘New Business’
French is used heavily throughout the episode, as Megan’s mother and sister help her move on from her life in New York. One conversation in particular stuck out to me.…