On Broadway: Four Musicals and Me
All photographs courtesy of the author. One Easter Sunday, I attended a screening of the film Jesus Christ Superstar put…
Month: January 2026
The Answer Is Love: On Red
Still from the film red. Screenshots from the official trailer. What are we really fighting for? The answer is love.…
Fungus and Melancholia
Charles West Cope, Hope Deferred, and Hope and Fear Igniting Hopevia Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In London, rubbish is called…
Love Letters from Lord Byron’s Boyfriend
LETTER 5: October 31, 1811, Nicolas Giraud to Byron. All letters courtesy of The National Library of Scotland. Lord Byron’s…
Cheating with John Cheever
Photograph by Nancy Crampton. Over a morning cappuccino in a small but lively European café that spilled onto the central…
Confused
Robot icon by SyntaxTerror, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Read parts one and two of Nancy Lemann’s series on talking…
The Wishing Well
The Wishing Well, Summer 1979. All images reproduced with permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. “I am once again looking…
A World Without Grass
Photograph by Krista Diamond. The white lines on the dirt football field were fresh, but by halftime they would be…
Ten Writing Prompts
Photo courtesy of Lucy Ives. Novelist and critic Lucy Ives began compiling writing prompts, sometimes spontaneously in the classes she…
The Making of Poetry: Jana Prikryl on “Dover Calais”
English Channel. Photo by Markus Trienke, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. For our Poetry Making series, we…