Scene 1: The Fab Five descend on Warren’s Cambridge house. Kyan: Is this where she lives? Carson: Oh god. Seventies drab, with a touch of Fifties cluelessness! Jai: Right? I mean there’s modest and then there’s a house that just screams, ‘I’m a mouse who teaches history and is running…

Ulla took a basket to gather seeds and went lightly through the garden toward the marsh, the chutes of the cattails at the edge of the pond catching the sun and matching the optimism in her blood. Inhaling the late morning air she was suddenly fearful and dug her mask…

Bloody hell, the Yanks elected me prez and now everyone’s saying things have gone pear-shaped. Some blokes are convinced I’m mad and I’m having a laugh watching them try to get me out on a barmy charge. If Mum were still here she’d tell them straight off I’m a dim…

“I don’t think character exists anymore,” the novelist Rachel Cusk declared in a discussion about fiction writing at a 2018 reading at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. Pressed to explain, she described “a homogeneity afoot that I think everyone would accept in terms of our environment and how we live and…

John Wray’s Lowboy (2009) follows its main character — a schizophrenic 16-year-old — on a wild ride reminiscent of the one in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in its emotional intensity and raw subjective vision, as well as its literal descent into the New York underground. Wray executes the jittery thought…

A true Gift is Time alone but This — is ridiculous — Birds, Slants of light — who Cares? Most treasured ventricle of Passion, My lily-white butt. I need to see a Person — before End Days, Mine personally, If you get my goddamn Drift — - Emily Dickinson No…

Folks, it’s not happening — all the scary things the woke left keeps trying to push on us, with the help of the absolutely corrupt media, who — hm? Roll my sleeve up further? — the setup is, the left lies and the media broadcasts the lies, 24/7. It’s a…

Once again the whole world is laughing at us Americans — if only that were new! At any rate, there’s a new reason: The Guardian, that estimable British newspaper, revealed on the weekend that all our innocent “Likes” and “Frowny faces” have been extracted, if you please, and plunged straight…

Russian authorities have denied all involvement in the poisoning, either suggesting Navalny had fallen ill for other reasons or suggesting others had carried out a poisoning. — Guardian, 9/15/20 Everyone saying “Russia poisoned Navalny.” But there’s plenty ways he could have gotten sick. …