A Brief History of Word Games
Ever since we’ve had language, we’ve played games with words.
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Ramona Forever
I returned to Ramona Quimby for nostalgia. What I found was even better: a mystery.
The Paris Review’s Poetry Crossword
Here’s an absolutely free, no-shipping-required, Paris Review crossword puzzle.
A Brief History of Word Games
Ever since we’ve had language, we’ve played games with words.
The Paris Review Crossword
Take your mind off all the ambient anxiety with a ‘Paris Review’–themed crossword.
My Harper Lee SparkNotes
Writing the SparkNotes for Go Set a Watchman.
ContextThe summer when I was eight, I read two books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and To Kill a Mockingbird. My copy of Mockingbird was a cheap lilac paperback. Its cover featured the knot of a tree with a …
The Font of Poetry, the Poetry of Font
Adventures in typography.I was a teenage font addict. On Microsoft Word I’d lovingly scroll through the drop-down font menu: Avenir Book, Baskerville, Goudy, Goudy Old Style. For every story or poem I started to write, I first spent hours choosing …
Losing Count
“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes.Eeny, meeny, miny, mo
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers, let him go
Eeny meeny miny mo
“Eeny meeny miny mo” is one of those rhymes that’s ingrained in our cultural l…