The Allure of Witchery
New York Magazine has an excerpt from Alex Mar’s new book, Witches of America.
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Lyz Lenz
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Lyz's writing has been published in the New York Times Motherlode, Jezebel, Aeon, Pacific Standard, and others. Her book on midwestern churches is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. She has her MFA from Lesley and skulks about on Twitter @lyzl. Lyz is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board and a full-time staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review.
Weekly Geekery
Using your English degree while coding. One foot in the real world, one foot in a story. A return to blogging? Or just marketing. Could robots be Renoir?
Breaking Up (With Friends) Is Hard to Do
Laura Turner writes about friendships and loss and the myths of ourselves: What I had found was that it took the instant to make me realize how much life had…
Life and Sex in a Small Town
When I talked to him that weekend, he explained I couldn’t have been pregnant because we hadn’t had sex. He knew because he and his dad sometimes hired a bull…
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Rape deniers of the 18th century. People just don’t get science, even though they love it. Ad blockers and your future Internet. A guide for politicians on Twitter.
The Ghostly Power of Mirrors
Colin Dickey writes for Hazlitt about the practice of covering mirrors after a death: There seems to be no universal reason behind the custom. Reginald Fleming Johnston, documenting this practice…
Sexy, Sexy Ethan Hawke
In my adolescence, the only realness that held my interest was the realness leading to the first kiss — the chemistry, the overwrought conversations that seemed to ensure mutual understanding.…
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Your divine visions are in your head. When online feedback shapes a story. Mischief and math in Amazon’s book pricing. The processes of empathy.
Angry Women in History
Stassa Edwards writes a comprehensive history of feminine vitrol: While the anger of second-wave feminists was meant to be liberating, it wasn’t without its own limitations. Solanas and Rosler, Kate…
The Story of Vera Caspary
Michelle Dean takes an intimate look at Vera Caspary, the woman who wrote Laura. But there is another source for the character. The writing of “Laura” was a kind of accident,…
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Misandrist snake is a hero. Connecting all life. How do humans innovate? The science and fiction of H.G. Wells.
One Way for Women To Be
What I should have said to that crowd was that our interrogation of Woolf’s reproductive status was a soporific and pointless detour from the magnificent questions her work poses. (I…