If Do-It-Yourself culture continues to gain appeal as fast as climate change lays on the chaos, it might make sense to look to the hinterlands for both practical guidance and hints about the fashions of the future.
Please feel, the new works of middlebrow beg, as if emotion were a difficult thing to conjure.
Message to lit mags: just say “no”
Some rejection letters have become ugly and patronizing, and they’re doing a disservice to writers.
A series of failed attempts at a year-end questionnaire and a preview of things to come.
Best of the Blog 2013 (part 2)
When panic takes over, the arbitrary program that decides asylum, notes towards a study of anthropomorphism, and the revolutionary aspects of coffee beans. We conclude our look back at the best of the blog.
Best of the Blog 2013 (part 1)
The mysteries of the axolotl, the swan song of the booty call, Reagan as Trojan Horse, and one conspicuous Novelist exposed as a con man: it’s all here in our 2013 blog recap (stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow)
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.
The Modern Love of Navigating Boston
How do you relate to the city, a place so complicated and so engrossing, when you don’t even know your way around? How am I supposed to figure out the colloquialism of New England navigation, if I can’t figure out the basic coordinates?
“Hey, check out my blog!”: Curating Taste and the Future of Art
In an image-saturated society, taste has transcended consumption.
My father is a good man. He loves his family, and worked hard for years to support us. He is thoughtful, considerate, and an excellent listener. Unfortunately, like many people of his generation who came of age in the Britain of the 1960s, he is also a racist.