June 3, 2023 | Rome, Italy
Try the other side of the street.

Bollards!

Why can't you park in front of the pharmacy in the Tuscan town of M----? Go ahead, ask the mayor.

László Krasznahorkai's The World Goes On.

The World Goes On

László Krasznahorkai's newest collection of stories is yet another ode in his ongoing courtship of oblivion.

Heavy doses of fictional autobiography.

Archie Auster

In "4 3 2 1," winner of the Man Booker International Prize, American novelist Paul Auster digs into his four-part past.

Zodiac: a study in not getting your man.

Zodiac

A decade later David Fincher's serial killer film still stands tall as a study in administrative futility.

As gender choices grow, language must adapt.

Pronoun theory

Gender pronouns are in deep flux, and the result may end language's traditional dependence on the "he-she" binary system.

Actors are used to "play" patients.

Be my doctor

An Objective Structured Clinical Examination is medical school lingo for a very special kind of stress test.