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I Can't Listen To Music While I Write, So Here's All The Antique Furniture I Browsed But Didn't Buy While Writing My Next Novel

The Pages of "Hop On Pop," Ranked By Our Fourteen-Month-Old Son

Bon-Bon The Dog Experiences River Madness

"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

The Reluctant Ecumenist: Nobody Resents or Resembles Nuns More than A Charlotte Brontë Heroine

Cupid and Psyche, Part II: It Was A Teenage Wedding And The Old Folks Wished Them Well

The Spiritual Competition Between Hermits and Alchemists: The Key To Being A Good Occultist is Clutter

I'll Tell Ya This For Free: Don't Use Your Freezer Too Much

Cupid and Psyche, Part I: Marrying Amelia Bedelia and the Problem of Beauty

The Angel Waking Elijah: Resentful Caregiving and the Malicious Compliance of Older Siblings

The Coat That Makes Guys Want To Talk To Me

“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, Now You Don't" Trailer

"He vexes my goose-herd": What To Read Next If You Liked the Complaint Tablet to Ea-Nasir

Where Is The Book Festival Brave Enough To Come Out Against "The Power of Storytelling"?

Twelve Hours on the Coast Starlight Train

"Is He Popeable?" My Top Ten Pope Picks, Based Solely on Header Photos In Wikipedia's List of Current Cardinals

"Babette's Feast" and the Protestant Envy of Catholicism

St. Jerome in His Study

"Christmas At The Women's Hotel" Is Coming Out in October 2025

A Good Day To Join The Hittite Army: The Bullock of Hell

Everything I Cooked This Weekend, Including Mistakes

A Day in the Life of Fourth-Year Medical Student Trinity Santos from Television's "The Pitt"

The Middlemarch Morning Routine

A Poll For Anyone Who Doesn't Speak To Their Family: Do You Think Estrangement Cost You Money, Or Saved You Money?

How To Cook Mushrooms Until Everybody In Your Family Likes You The Best

Don't Try and Tell ME That My Backpack's Open, Buddy

The Most Unsettling Inscription I've Ever Found on the Inside Cover of a Used Book, Bar None

The Ladder of Celebrity, According to Our Eleven-Month-Old

Join Me In Talking About "Mansfield Park" and Marrying Jiminy Cricket With Margaret Willison on March 24th

Joys Of A Chimpanzee Who Lives At The Zoo, In Which I Might Not Share But Nonetheless Understand And Even Respect

“But,” said Grimaud, in the same silent dialect, “we shall leave our skins there”: What's Going On With The Sign Language in "The Three Musketeers"?

My Six-Point Plan To Help You Stop Living Mindfully And Enter A Constant State of "Living Sleep"

"All should be hid under the cloud of forgetting": On Memory Loss and Courtesy

A Sneak Peek at the Upcoming and Never-Before-Read Joan Didion Diaries

The Future of National Park Updates About Trans People: "Learn more about Blanchard’s typology by scanning the QR code at the Center for Brooklyn History!"

Who Is More "Like A Boy" In the Aubrey-Maturin Series: Captain Jack Aubrey, or Diana Villiers?

The Three Musketeers

The Pages of Goodnight Moon, Ranked by Our Ten-Month-Old Son

Tell Me What You Want To Read

Two Medieval Monks Draw Some Birds

Everybody Talks About How Nobody Talks About Friend Breakups

A Grave Goods Guide For The Difficult to Shop For and Recently Deceased

Animals Who Are In Trouble In Western Art History

The Only Advice I'll Ever Have For Writers

A Brief Account of the Crimes Committed by the Baby So Far in his Nine Months of Life