Nobel laureate in literature, Eugene O’Neill said “Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”
Václav Havel Street inauguration in Luxembourg marks symbolic end to Czech EU presidency
In his 30s, A.N. Wilson gossiped, slept around, and drank with other literary journalists “on a positively Slavic scale” Slavic Scale »
Gut Bacteria Might Shape Social BehaviorSmithsonian
These bumblebees like playing and it’s the sweetest thing ZME Science
Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers Literary Hub. On beavers as ecosystem engineers, see NC here and here.
Beware “storification” — our overreliance on storytelling conventions to understand the world around us - storytelling »
My dad always said, “never sell the land, Son. God isn’t making any more of it.”
Articles of Note
The culture war comes for libraries. Say goodbye to the reference desk, and hello to circulation-desk sermonizing libraries »
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James Gillray, the “Prince of Caricatura,” spent long hours ridiculing the sexual and gastronomic excesses of the British Royal family »
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Auden's influence pinballs throughout postwar literature. Is he the great 20th-century language poet »
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