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Smells like Teen Spirit, and Other News
That way lies madness—and great innovations in odor-concealing technology. There are great things happening along the I-95 corridor. The rest stops, for one—if you’ve stopped at the Walt Whitman...
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Behind the Decadence, There’s Dust, and Other News
Gustav Wunderwald, Brücke über die Ackerstraße, 1927. Image via Public Domain Review. We associate Weimar Berlin with Dionysian excess, unfettered lust, and quality drugs, all of which put it at the...
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Long May Your Walrus Snooze, and Other News
From Conrad Gesner’s Icones Animalium, 1560. Image via Public Domain Review. Ours is a sad era, for we have lost our ability to marvel at the walrus. We may chuckle at the walrus, sure, or name...
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Some Thoughts About the Soul
A textile design by Varvara Stepanova, 1924. In the opinion of well-read governesses and educated governors’ wives, the soul is an indeterminable entity of psychological substance. I have no reason...
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The Case for Seasonal Sentimentality
All original illustrations © Mary Laura Philpott. There’s a line in Nora Ephron’s 1983 novel Heartburn: “Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I’ll show you a real...
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Leonard Michaels Was a Cat Person
Probably there are as many writers who are dog people as those who are cat people, but the idea of cats as the foremost literary familiar has long been entrenched and seems unlikely to be dislodged...
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A Tortoise Stakeout with Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood. Photo: Grep Hoax. © Grep Hoax. I have a mildly confessional face, which means that strangers often feel compelled to tell me things. My natural mode of small talk is inquisitive,...
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Painting Backward: A Conversation with Andrew Cranston
Andrew Cranston’s studio. Photograph courtesy of the artist. Andrew Cranston, whose painting A Room That Echoes appears on the cover of the Review’s new Spring issue, did not intend to become a...
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My Friend Goo
Illustration by Na Kim. In March 2020 the entire human world was out walking. I, too, was walking, longer and farther than I’d ever gone on foot from my house. When I wasn’t walking, I was watching...
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Saturday Is the Rose of the Week
Clarice Lispector. Photo courtesy of Paulo Gurgel Valente. In 1967, the Jornal do Brasil asked Clarice Lispector to write a Saturday newspaper column on any topic she wished. For nearly seven years she...
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