Mary Somerville: Journalist, Scientist
Matthew Wills revisits the life and career of Mary Somerville, a 19th century scientist, translator, and a popular science journalist. Somerville also has a notable place in linguistic history: the…
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Michelle Vider
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Michelle Vider is a writer based in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Toast, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Atlas and Alice, Baldhip Magazine, and others. Find her at michellevider.com or @meanchelled.
Lines between Genres
At Hazlitt, Tobias Carroll writes on the current state of science fiction and fantasy, with recent works in both genres borrowing from the other to expand the limits of their…
Romancing the Cure
Homer understood in the 8th century BCE what modernity has yet to accept—love can be an addiction, and when it is, we need substantial outside help. Angela Chen writes for…
A Writer’s Labels
The problem, however, lies in the fact that, whenever these labels are internalized by those in positions of power, they flatten a writer’s experiences. They shrink someone to just a…
How Far We Have(n’t) Come
As part of a series on diversity in publishing at Brooklyn Magazine, Molly McArdle talks with professionals across the publishing world about the state of diversity in the publishing industry today.
The Hipster Consumes
…I can eat hip, wear it, and hang out with people who do the same. I do like artisanal food and vintage clothes. But I’d trade their proliferation in a…
Origins of the “Fantasy North”
E.R. Truitt writes for Aeon on the long history of the “Fantasy North,” the lands, people, and culture at the top of the world that have fascinated pop culture for…
Worldbuilding, Novelbuilding
I have an impression that I write novels and then I publish the structure of those novels. There are missing Legos in that castle. And I like that. You must…
The Eden of the Surveillance State
Participation in our own surveillance was the price of entry into heaven. In the Winter 2016 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Amanda Power writes on the history (real and mythological) of…
Erotica Illustrated
For Hyperallergic, Claire Voon tours the New York Public Library’s collection of historical erotica, ranging from 15th century illustrations of eroticized mythological scenes to risqué 19th century photographs kept safe…
Phillis Wheatley, Poet
For Lenny Letter, Doreen St. Félix writes on the legacy of Phillis Wheatley, the first black poet to have her work published in America: In her second life, Wheatley’s poetry—and…
Celibacy, Masculinity, and the Clergy
Jennifer Thibodeaux discusses in an interview with Notches her recent work on the historical emergence of celibacy among clergy. In particular, Thibodeaux focuses on how the clergy created an image…