A brief weekly round-up of some good stuff.
The Muppets came back! For one night only, but holy hell do we need whatever we can get right now.
Peter Hujar's Day is now available to watch on Criterion and it's an absolutely lovely way to spend an hour and change.
Melissa Clark's broccoli potato soup has been giving me life this week.
Aarvo Pärt's "Fur Alina" is my ideal winter mood music.
A brief weekly round-up of some things that are good. This week I learned that, per the photo above, John Steinbeck was not only a towering figure of 20th-century literature, but also pretty hot! (Thanks to Laura for inadvertently alerting me to this fact.) As if I couldn't
It was towards the end of "Wuthering Heights" that I began to suspect I was going to hell, no matter that Jews don't believe in it. Cathy was on her death bed, expiring from septicemia, and Heathcliff was professing his love and sorrow. The woman next
A weekly round-up of some things that are good. The U.S. women's hockey team declined Trump's invitation to come visit him not once but twice because they know that they (and we) deserve better. Claire Keegan is a stone-cold boss of the novella, and Foster
Hello from the aftermath of the Great New York Snowpocalypse. There's almost two feet of snow on my balcony, but we're still in the grace period before the city turns to a noxious soup of blackened slush and uncollected dog shit, so for now, it'