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Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel Ancient Heroes in the Modern World by Peter Meineck Description “By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck’s marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends.” —Christopher Markus, coscreenwriter of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame What connects Dionysus, the […]

Links of the Week, vol. 19 The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page. ────────────── ● ────────────── The Longest Solar Eclipse for 100 Years Is Coming. Don’t […]

The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty Pub Date Nov 14 2023 St. Martin’s Press | St. Martin’s Griffin Description An updated edition of the classic tip-a-day grammar guide from New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Grammar Girl podcast, Mignon Fogarty. One hundred million podcast […]

Polyarchive’s Most Visited Pages of 2025 Introduction to Collected Poems (1938), E.E. Cummings The Poems of Our Climate | Wallace Stevens After a While | Veronica A. Shoffstall (NOT Jorge Luis Borges) Flannery O’Connor: “Where you come from is gone” Book Review: Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano The […]

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”—American novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor (1926-1964) in Wise Blood: A Novel (1952)

Links of the Week, vol. 18 The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page. ────────────── ● ────────────── Grist | The oceans just hit an ominous milestone A […]

Links of the Week, vol. 17 The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page. ────────────── ● ────────────── Ivan Bunin hated everyone… well, almost everyone. A very interesting […]

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras Workman Publishing Company Description A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller. A Feast of Wonder! Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven […]

Links of the Week, vol. 16 The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page. ────────────── ● ────────────── Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack is among the most important documentation […]

A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover Annette B. Dunlap University of Nebraska Press Description When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well […]

… Susan Sontag’s principal gifts to our civilization were not that easily packaged, but were a brilliant, non-stop commentary on contemporary art practices and their effects on our emotions. She did get off one sound bite in an interview on television, which was to me a stunning sermon in and of itself. She was asked […]

Links of the Week, vol. 15 The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page. ────────────── ● ────────────── How a Pop Band Tricked 9 Million Americans into Being […]

Excerpt from Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin by Catherine Merridale “[The area of modern-day Russia and Ukraine] seemed to be a dangerous, exotic place, where fortunes waited for adventurers. Human slaves were one source of profit, for while Muslims and Christians were forbidden to enslave each other, the pagan Slavs were fair […]

Links of the Week, vol. 14 The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page. ────────────── ● ────────────── MrPorter.com: The Tribute: 10 Black Style Icons Who Changed British […]

Top 9 Posts of 2024 Readers came here for many different posts during the year, but these were the most popular: The Poems of Our Climate | Wallace Stevens Dorothy Parker on New York: Autumn is the Springtime of big cities Introduction to Collected Poems (1938), E.E. Cummings You Want a Social Life, with Friends […]