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The Pages of "Hop On Pop," Ranked By Our Fourteen-Month-Old Son
In the matter of books, Rocco is like a rude pagan king surrounded by literate priests he neither trusts nor is yet prepared to dismiss from his…
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Bon-Bon The Dog Experiences River Madness
It is all I can do to keep him on the leash until we reach the riverbank. He oscillates with impatience, like a malfunctioning tennis-ball launcher.
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"Playthings may not count in, tap out, or call time, but await the pleasure of big hands": A Few Runs at Sappho's Fragment 63
Claire Catenaccio (a Classics professor) approached Danny (a very occasional poet and pretend translator) with a theory about the missing portions of…
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May 2025

The Reluctant Ecumenist: Nobody Resents or Resembles Nuns More than A Charlotte Brontë Heroine
Buried alive, grilled alive, walled alive; if “I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem as an adult” was a popular riff in the 2010s…
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Cupid and Psyche, Part II: It Was A Teenage Wedding And The Old Folks Wished Them Well
No one ever seems to be able to agree on just how old Cupid is. Sometimes he’s a beautiful poet-youth of nineteen or twenty, and sometimes he’s a…
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The Spiritual Competition Between Hermits and Alchemists: The Key To Being A Good Occultist is Clutter
No alchemist was ever into minimalism.
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I'll Tell Ya This For Free: Don't Use Your Freezer Too Much
For the rest of May, I’m offering a 40% discount for the next year to anyone who buys a subscription to the Chatner. Please do consider upgrading to a…
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Cupid and Psyche, Part I: Marrying Amelia Bedelia and the Problem of Beauty
A lot of people will try to tell you that the story of Cupid and Psyche is a Neoplatonic allegory for the soul, but don’t you let them. It’s a story…
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The Angel Waking Elijah: Resentful Caregiving and the Malicious Compliance of Older Siblings
plus a big old subscription sale
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The Coat That Makes Guys Want To Talk To Me
I like to walk around a lot.
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“If you want to stop the devil, don’t cut off her hands. Lift her wallet”: Power Ranking Every Line of Dialogue In The New "Now You See Me…
I have made no secret of my affection for the Now You See Me franchise.
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April 2025

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