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But Why Didn't Hannibal Ever Conquer Rome?
"He spent nearly two decades successfully besieging the Italian peninsula. His victory at Cannae caused the greatest single military loss in Roman…
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On The Fairy Dog Petitcrieu, Who Cuts In Half All Sorrows
None who saw him came away bewildered, and the sound of the little bell hung around his neck could eat sorrow.
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Dear Prudence: The Column: The Book Is Out April 4th
“I want to be right all of the time; in my natural condition and given the option, I would choose the warm satisfaction of self-righteousness over…
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I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town
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Finally Taking My Own Advice About Thanksgiving
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Thoughts on a Phone Call
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"As A Trans Man, Thanks For Being So Welcoming Of Trans Men; Weird That There's No Trans Women Here"
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How I Believe Various Characters From HBO's "The Sopranos" Would React If I Tried To Teach Them The Rules Of Warhammer
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A Good Day To Join The Hittite Army, Chapter Five: A Case-By-Katabasis Basis
A Good Day to Join the Hittite Army, Chapter One. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Back at home — I mean my home, that is; I’m sorry but I…
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You Could Not Find Papa In The Garden? Ah Ba! - But He Has Grown Worryingly Small These Days
I daren’t tell them that Papa now drinks his morning coffee from an acorn!
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Finishing My Novel and Submitting My Application To Become A Wealthy Peasant In An Old Painting
Please enjoy this unlocked post from November 2022 while I contend with some light carpal tunnel syndrome and finish my novel this week! My hands hurt…
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“If you are a bird, odds are that you are a chicken”: Jacques Pépin, Mimi's Café, and American Ideas About French Food
I think of Jacques Pépin as having an ideal relationship to attention: repetition and relaxation are united in him, the result is expertise, and his…
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The Problem With Being Edited
My formal education ended in total collapse and defeat, almost entirely through my own failure of nerve. I was the sort of child who hated being asked…
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Interlude: The Problem With The Boxcar Children Is They Never Got To Spend Enough Time In The Boxcar
The end of any childhood is a bit like the French Revolution; things that mattered a great deal at eight years old seem in retrospect like having been…
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The Problem With Waking Up Later Than Everybody Else
One of the worst things I can imagine happening to me is waking up later than everybody else and emerging from my bedroom to find the rest of the party…
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The Chatner
The Chatner
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
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