Essay Why know-it-alls get under our skin, and what their history can teach us November 21, 2025 You probably know the kind of person who can ruin a dinner party before anyone has picked up a fork or knife. They casually correct your pronunciation of 鈥渁p茅ritif,鈥� keenly explain the difference between prosecco and cava, and, by dessert, are lecturing on the limitations of spelling checkers. Read More
Essay Finding Sophie November 18, 2025 Somehow, the message didn鈥檛 sink in. I鈥檇 often heard the old adage: 鈥渁 picture is worth a thousand words.鈥� But the photograph by Alexander Gardner didn鈥檛 explain itself to me. Instead, it took me about 130,000 words to try and explain it. I wrote an entire book about one photograph. Read More
Interview Urmila Seshagiri on The Life of Violet November 06, 2025 In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet鈥攁 teasing tribute to Woolf鈥檚 friend Mary Violet Dickinson. Read More
Interview Philippa Gander on Life in Sync November 05, 2025 All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely on cues from the surrounding environment. Read More
Interview Steve Ramirez on How to Change a Memory November 05, 2025 As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where we can replace our negative memories with positive ones. Read More
Essay Scratching the surface October 29, 2025 Death confronts us all as the ultimate rupture and mystery at the very heart of life. That existential challenge has been met, it turns out, of an almost infinite variety of customs and rituals. Read More
Essay The seafood platter 鈥� past, present, and future October 24, 2025 The Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Cura莽ao are famed for their sun-kissed beaches. Just fifty miles to their east, the lesser-known Bonaire island is treasured by scuba divers precisely for its lack of beaches, bathers and tourist hotels. Read More
Essay Prose is a prison, poetry a prism October 15, 2025 In the late 1990s, I worked as a machinist in Rochester, New York, where I operated a 1937 Brown & Sharpe No. 00 Automatic Screw Machine, fabricating precision parts for Xerox photocopiers. Read More
Essay On A Violence October 15, 2025 I love swimming. In the summer, at the community pool, I like diving dramatically from the shallow end to the deep end, under the rope with its small blue and white floating barrels. I like gazing out at the rippling aqua rectangle, in all its green lawn. Read More
Essay Architecture鈥檚 forgotten figures October 10, 2025 Like any other subject, the history of modernist architecture has its favored heroes and plotlines, but also important figures who drop out of sight despite their contemporary successes. Ella Briggs is one of them. Read More
Essay Why should I care? 艢antideva鈥檚 Project in How to Lead an Awakened Life October 06, 2025 Jay L. Garfield (author of How to Be Caring, How to Lose Yourself, and Losing Ourselves, all 快色直播) writes about the benefits of caring, both to society and to individuals. Read More
PUP Life: Celebrating National Poetry Day October 03, 2025 National Poetry Day is the largest mass celebration of poetry in the UK, with more than 1.5 million people participating annually. As an office of literature lovers, 快色直播 Oxford decided to mark the day with a dedicated time of poetry reading, featuring tea, doughnuts, and poets ranging from Rosetti to Robson. Read More
Unearthing the deep history of Native America October 01, 2025 As part of our longstanding Farmington River Archaeological Project, my field crew initiated an intensive search for sites in Peoples State Forest in 1985. Peoples is a heavily wooded state park consisting of about 3,000 acres located in the northwest Connecticut hill town of Barkhamsted. Read More
Essay Why killing vampires makes people happy September 25, 2025 John Blair is the author of Killing the Dead, a riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia鈥攁nd why killing the dead is better than killing the living. Read More
Essay Growing old: The opportunity of burden September 25, 2025 A vibrant, ever-present elder force can act as a new role model to young people about what aging can and should look like鈥攁 corrective against ageist stereotypes and fears. When elders are better integrated into society, everyone benefits. Read More
