The metal band is called a ferrule. In looking it up I found countless websites dedicated to pencils and their appreciation, ...

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August 19, 2025 – "Suddenly I thought I should probably ride a bull. Or, more accurately, I suddenly found that I was going ...

Think of the fierce and implacable Lyanna Mormont, the child ruler played by Bella Ramsey in Game of Thrones. Think of the ...

Just like In Search of Lost Time, the narrative trajectory of Drake’s albums shows us an arriviste filled with hope and ...

This repetitive self-mutilating behavior is referred to as stereotypic behavior, repetitive gestures exhibited by humans and ...

Before I read Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1953 Howard Hawks film had already influenced my existence as a young girl in the form of a Marilyn Monroe VHS box set. It wasn’t the glitz and ...

I kept a typed diary in college. It started three weeks into freshman year and ended three days into senior year. Over 1,079 days, I typed 76 entries, totaling 21,975 words. Here, I’ve edited it down ...

“Forgive me for the things I have done and for the things I have left undone,” Joy Williams said in 2014, in her Paris Review Art of Fiction interview. “I may very well write out of a sense of guilt.” ...

Two moments in Graham Greene’s published life have often returned to me in the past twenty years. This may sound strange: an ideal reader should refrain from crossing the boundary between a writer’s ...