Unfinished: About Kathleen Collins’ “The Blue Barrier.”
Image courtesy of Hayley O’Malley and reproduced with permission of the Estate of Kathleen Collins. This is a composition notebook…
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Coke Factory
Drawing by Turner Brooks. I first became aware of the existence of a coke factory in New Haven, Connecticut, when,…
Finely Balanced Eggs
Every month, we search dozens of soon-to-be-published books, to get great ideas and writing for Overview’site. Often we are surprised…
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…
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…