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Horrifying Stories Made Comforting And Anodyne: The Cask of Amontillado

THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave...

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How to Tell if You’re in a Raymond Chandler Story

You are the beautiful only daughter of an invalid. You are the disappointing son of a cold-hearted woman with thick arms. Your name is Derace, Orfamay, Moose, or Rusty, but you’ve asked to please be...

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An Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes

"As a society, it’s time we woke up from our collective illusion that autism is a puzzle that’s going to be solved by a medical breakthrough that’s perpetually just around the corner. Autistic people...

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Every Time The Narrator Very Nearly Has Tea In Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca

Rebecca is a book about a young woman who is too frightened to ask her husband a question or even have a first name. She spends the entire novel very nearly having tea, then thinking better of it. Only...

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An Interview with Jillian Keenan, Author of Sex with Shakespeare

In her new book, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love, Jillian Keenan uses Shakespeare's plays as a vehicle to tell the story of how she came to understand her own...

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Islanders: Four Poems by Teow Lim Goh

Four poems from Teow Lim Goh's ISLANDERS, a collection of poems about the Angel Island Immigration Station, followed by a brief Q&A with the poet. Read more Islanders: Four Poems by Teow Lim Goh at...

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Guessing What French Is In Les Miserables

Le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri, the dog is barking. Le dab est sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative. The cab is Jasper's, the marrow will...

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Women Who Have Gone Back in Time: An Annotated Ranking

What makes some women cross to the nether-centuries is beyond me. Here is an ordered list, from Horrifying to Most Horrifying, of women who have traveled to the Past. Read more Women Who Have Gone Back...

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Two Linguists Explain Pseudo Old English in The Wake

Gretchen: So as far as I can tell, the goal of this book is to be something more sophisticated and legit than Ye Olde Tea Shoppe, while still being more accessible than Actual Beowulf. Read more Two...

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In Which Three Adults Discuss The Hero and the Crown Seriously and At Length

EVERDEEN: My father gave me the book as a gift. When I was young, my dad would buy me these really nice hardcover classics as gifts, and I always felt really regal about it, like it was a tome and I...

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