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Something Is Missing

Daniel Kipnis

February 20, 2026

“There are some who say the word Odradek comes from the Slavic and they look for its etymology there. There are others who say it’s a Germanic word, merely inflected by the Slavic. The doubt surrounding both versions forces one to conclude that neither is true, ...

Wild Facts

Robert Rubsam

February 11, 2026

Spiritual cinema is fundamentally an aspiration.

A Place to Call Home

Jackson Davidow

February 06, 2026

More just than documents of neighborly attachment and empowerment.

Shakespeare in the Bardo

Tana Wojczuk

February 05, 2026

Shakespeare is no longer just a playwright, he is an industry.

Everything Is at Stake

Apoorva Tadepalli

February 04, 2026

Amit Chaudhuri’s “poetics of unfinishedness.”

Maximally Perverse Obscurantism

Paul Grimstad

January 29, 2026

There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”

Half the Battle

Thom Sliwowski

January 28, 2026

Wikipedia’s collective monument to human inquisitiveness is being steamrolled by LLMs.

Corridors of Grief

Rhian Sasseen

January 27, 2026

“Life is a work of grief.”

Language Arts

Meghan Racklin

January 14, 2026

There is a lethal power in this storytelling strategy.

Wegmania!

Jeff Weinstein

January 13, 2026

Are we what we eat—or when we eat, where we eat?

Among the Prophets

Nicholas Russell

January 02, 2026

Has the future finally arrived? Have we regressed into the past?

Different Strokes

Edna Bonhomme

December 30, 2025

Was OneTaste a cult—or just a pyramid scheme?