Ever since I first read "The Fortunes of Mrs. Wu" in The Dragon and the Stars , I've pestered its author not only for permis...

In the anthropocentric world of classed delusion glass thinking it is made of fish is in exclusion.

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Looking at New Yorker cartoons of 1929–1930s, I ended up noting one cartoonist's name time and again, and finally looking it up—only to...

A few days ago there was either an hilarious, a hilarious, or a hillarius (depending upon your publisher) exchange between Keith Brooke and ...

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