More Than a Feeling
July 30
How can you tell an epiphany from a breakdown?
Stephanie Burt
Stephanie Burt is Donald and Katherine Loker Professor of English at Harvard. Her most recent books include Super Gay Poems (2025) and We Are Mermaids (2022). Her book about Taylor Swift will appear from Basic Books this fall.
Dolphins
Princes, unready
to rule France or anywhere else.
No, they are glossy, all-too-human
marine mammals, unable to communicate
with their captors, till the intrepid
children set them free
at the climax of the film.
Some wish they were whales,
able to find their ...
Mirror on Mirror
July 27, 2020
Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.