Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience
The oldest single living organism is a creosote bush named King Clone in the Mojave Desert. Radiocarbon dating and yearly growth measurements estimate...
Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World
In the swinging scene of 1960s London, Rosamund is an anomaly: a socially liberal graduate student who is completely uninterested in sex. Her...
Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?
Some decades ago, when Mexico was still ruled by an authoritarian regime, one or another president remarked that the only two establishments one...
“Intentional Neglect.” On the Creation of Nationalized Child Protection in Victorian England
The idea of the pure and innocent child whom adults needed to protect and nurture had emerged in the work of Romantic thinkers...
Alexis Landau on Beauty, Aging, and What Mothers Pass Down to Their Daughters
My mother came of age in Hollywood at the tail end of the 1950s, when girls wore white gloves to shop at Saks...