More than a Matter of Taste
Henry James’s fiction shows how aesthetic misjudgments can be connected to moral vice.
Let Us Now Praise the Periodical Cicadas
The pulsating song of billions of seventeen-year cicadas.
Wordsworth and the Paradox of Self-Writing
Posted on June 10, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Lake District, England. Via Wikimedia Commons.
When I give myself over to the self-writers I love most, I am transformed.
All Eyes on Me
Sometimes irony is a painful awareness of our own absurdity.
A Stacked Deck
What makes someone a likely Substack star is an ability to cultivate one-way, parasocial relationships with readers.
The Desk
by
Mike Rose
Posted on June 24, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: A poster from the 1950s science fiction adventure series Space Patrol.
These were places where I could imagine anything, be anybody. Space travel was new, fresh, a laboratory of possibility.
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