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Primeval Something about the land, usually a forest—giant trees dripping with moss, crusted with lichen, a tangled understory dense with growth—conjures the word primeval. But I have learned this is inaccurate. Continue reading
MY AUNT LOU told me once that it is easier for our people to believe in magic than it is for others. As soon as she said it, I knew Continue reading
For a lot of its history, the “road trip” has conjured predominantly white, straight, masculine images (see literature from Homer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Jack Kerouac), but of course, that’s Continue reading
After years of Richard Dawkins-like grumpiness, I finally revisited Kafka’s The Metamorphosis through Susan Bernofsky’s 2014 translation and discovered it as a whole new creature: sweet, charming, curious, and terrifyingly realistic. Continue reading
This is an excerpt from Regenesis by George Monbiot. While I was researching this chapter, the doorbell rang. Deliveries are usually an annoying distraction. But when I saw what the man Continue reading
