N.B. The beautiful print that is featured in this post is my copy of “Ritual”…
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On Friday I spent the rainy afternoon at the theater to view Guillermo del Toro’s…
The Lady and Her Monsters Part II: Suicide and the Myth of Control Through the Lens of Percy Shelley
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I curated this gallery of child elegies, of which Anne Bradstreet was the informal “founder”…
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I’ve just finished Kate Mayfield’s richly macabre bildungsroman The Undertaker’s Daughter, which centers around her…
I am sorry to say I am not well-versed in the Sherlock canon, having only…
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I recently finished Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory,Caitlin Doughty’s macabre, delightful…