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Sunday Scaries: “Delicates”
Even the crunching tick of the mounted clock held off to hear Gwendolyn’s need for disruption.
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What We Are Allowed to Give
This is what it means to be a child who receives love and damage from the same pair of hands. You do not only inherit the damage. You inherit the confusion about what love is supposed to feel like, whether…
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Won’t You Stream Every Movie on the Criterion Channel with Me
If older brains measure time in memories let’s relive every moment, sitting in the dark, sharing a box of nonpareils at the arthouse theater, back when stream was still a fluid thing we rock-hopped over.
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What the Body Keeps: On Frida Kahlo and the Grammar of Pain
English gives us a thin vocabulary for chronic conditions. We say flare-up, we say bad day, we say I’m fine in the elevator when someone asks, because the real answer takes longer than an elevator ride. Kahlo painted in a…
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18 of the Best Book Covers of September 2026
Plus Claire Sullivan on designing the cover of Deena Helm’s debut novel Our Cut of Salt
