Six Foot Turkey

 I suppose there are basically two attitudes to death (and really just about everything else)—both of which are true, so far as they go. Wil...

 "The first day after a death, the new absence / Is always the same," Philip Larkin wrote. Today, I woke up to a house without dad...

 Since many far-right influencers have recently gone from viewing Trump as God's anointed on Earth to the literal Antichrist (viz. Tucke...

 My dad is dying slowly in the living room. He's on twenty-four hour hospice care, and I pass his bed of sickness every time I get up fo...

 This week brought us news of another AI-related controversy in the literary world. Apparently a number of readers are speculating that thi...

 It seems increasingly like our elite institutions are all pulling together to enable Trump's next act of aggression, imperialism, and r...

 In the first chapter of his classic book of cultural history, The Great Cat Massacre, Robert Darnton studies a handful of folk tales in the...