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Letters Between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

Scenes From "Gallstones," A Novel-In-Progress

Mottos of the Queens of Henry VIII

Free Sandwiches, Holding On, and The Best Job Interview I Had This Year

How My Two Small Dogs Experience The Hour Before Dinner

Apple-Shot: On A Christmas Story, Body Blocking, Childhood and the Avoidance of Violence

How To Do A Good Bad Job "Trying" With Your Loved One's Transition

What I'm Reading and Working On Now: Medieval Shipwrecks, Edwardian Suburbs, and 42nd Street

The Life of St. Teresa of Avila, Hater's Annotation

A Self-Praise Poem of Shulgi, King of Ur

Letters To The Empress Matilda

Lear's Daughters in Art

What, This Old Thing? I'm Telling You, Pickle Some Raisins

Very Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Children

All About Eve Is The Greatest-Ever Homophobic Gay Movie

All The Novels I Referenced in My Novel

A Good Day To Join The Hittite Army, Chapter Five: A Case-By-Katabasis Basis

You Could Not Find Papa In The Garden? Ah Ba! - But He Has Grown Worryingly Small These Days

Finishing My Novel and Submitting My Application To Become A Wealthy Peasant In An Old Painting

“If you are a bird, odds are that you are a chicken”: Jacques Pépin, Mimi's Café, and American Ideas About French Food

The Problem With Being Edited

Interlude: The Problem With The Boxcar Children Is They Never Got To Spend Enough Time In The Boxcar

The Problem With Waking Up Later Than Everybody Else

But Why Didn't Hannibal Ever Conquer Rome?

What I'm Working On and The Book of Envy

Commissions That Patrons of Early Netherlandish Art Never Asked For

A Day in the Life of a Druid, Based Solely On Reliably Verifiable Written or Archaeological Evidence

Three Ways Of Touching The Earth

The Problem With Blurbs, Or My Problem With Blurbs, Or A Problem With Blurbs I Often Have

On The Fairy Dog Petitcrieu, Who Cuts In Half All Sorrows

Everything Trans People Have In Common With The Knights Templar In The Public Imagination

"In 1923 I Was Really 'Out'": Valentine Ackland's "For Sylvia"

A Good Day To Join The Hittite Army, Chapter Five: A Quick Trip to the Underworld

Waking-Up Times, In Order

Problems I Sometimes Have That A Gorilla Who Lives At The Zoo Might Also Have

The Summer Insect Repellance Index

All Rocks Are The Same Age

Summer Tips: How To Let A Bear Know You're Friendly and Nothing to Be Afraid Of

Things People Say In Old Movies To Prevent Another Character From Discussing Their Feelings

Everything What's Wrong With Pelicans

A Good Day To Join the Hittite Army, Chapter Four: "Suppose This To Be Rhodes"

"Spring Forth, Burly Protector, and Save Me!"

If There's One Thing I Know, It's That My Place On Fortune's Wheel Is Stable, Deserved, and Assured

Announcements, Reminders, and Quitting the Snare Drum

It's So Good of You To Take An Interest In My Awards

A Good Day to Join the Hittite Army, Chapter Three: A Surprise Sea Voyage

Back in the Public Domain: It's The House at Pooh Corner

Possible Dinnertimes, In Order of Moral Laxity

Things I'd Never Say to a Detective: Our Last Conversation Seemed Perfectly Normal -- Oh, You Mean Our Fight on the Bridge?

"A Good Day to Join the Hittite Army," Part II: There Are At Least Three Roads in the World

Things I Love To Say Shortly Before Being Murdered

"The Single Standard": Towards A Unified Theory of the Transmasculine Origins of Romance Novels

Please Accept My Application To Be Turned Loose in The Royal Forest to Root for Beechmast and Acorns

All Things Great and Small: Excerpts From A Secret Whatsapp Group Of The Neighbors of Peter Glazebrook, Giant Vegetable Farmer

It's 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger. No, I Won't Lift My Eyes to the Horizon Right Now

Take A Train, Why Not

"A Good Day to Join the Hittite Army"

Dear Prudence Book Tour Dates

A Conversation with Zoe Selengut: On Handling the Original Flowers in The Attic Manuscript

Why is Mr. Wilson Barking?

Succession's Tom and Greg Dialogue Generator

"The pine cone preserves jar is always entirely filled with cones, unlike our competitors": Six of the Most Expensive Jams I Could Find

Questions People Have Had For Me Now That A Third Dog Is Here

"Every woman is interesting for at least one evening": The Short-Lived Escort Boom of the 1930s and Ted Peckham's Gentlemen For Rent

The British River-Disaster Genre: "The Willows" is a Reverse "Three Men in a Boat"

"He Made So Much Pizza, It Almost Killed Him": You Simply Must Watch Chef's Table: Pizza

"You Should Call Your Father": On the Unbearable Estrangement of Other People's Families

"20,000 Years in Sing Sing"

Travel Tips for Visiting New York in 1920

The May Queen is kind of stuck up, and kills people. The Harvest Queen mostly just does hayrides and everybody likes her

The Best Books I've Read By Accident This Year

Dear Prudence: The Column: The Book Is Out April 4th

"God helpe the poore Fishes; it is a hard world with them, they use not to lye under such thicke roofes:" Highlights From the Great Frost Fairs of 1683

From One Vizier To Another: If You Are Having Problems With Your Liege, Look Within

I Am Not A Crank: We Need Middle-of-the-Road Toilet Paper

City Slickers is a Reverse Cain and Abel

The Twenty-Three Best Non-Dialogue Lines From The Original Script for "Blade"

How To Avoid A Scene

Remittance Man

What "When Harry Met Sally" Owes To "The Odd Couple"

Things I Might Say To That Prim Little Detective Who Keeps Turning Up At My Club, Country Estate, Et Cetera

Predicting Yellowstone Plot Points Based on Years of Grandma TV