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The Care and Feeding of Prince George
Josie Glausiusz is on hiatus and will return next week. This week, we return to one of her previous On Science essays.
Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23, 2013, with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge …
Read MoreCare and Feeding of Prince George
Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23 with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge looked happy, describing themselves, in Kate’s words, as “very emotional … any parent probably sort of knows what this feeling feels like.” Their …
Read MoreBack to Bellevue
… There was a strict limit on the number of visitors allowed in my mother’s room at any one time. Constant finger pricking for blood tests. A feeding tube shoved up her nose. An IV needle jammed into the back of her hand. My mother was mostly unconscious, but whenever a nurse or aide started …
Read MoreThe Barber of Erice
… people of Erice would never hold him to account. The priest spoke to their better selves, the ones who would always welcome the stranger, shelter the homeless, feed the starving, visit the dying, the ones who would ascend, flawless, to heaven. But a barber could only tend to their vanity, the person they had to …
Read MoreWinter 2026
… boasting is a formal condition of the epic form.
—Zadie Smith, “The House That Hova Built,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, September 2012
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned to pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.
There came …
Acid Blues (Slight Return)
… those desperate for his Super Bowl–caliber talent.
Back at Woodstock, many more notes whang and toggle, feeding back hard through 100-watt Marshall amplifiers and the rickety towers of speakers flanking the stage. Hendrix is making the white Fender speak with a vengeance, playing instead of singing the lyrics. He warps “the rockets …
Trading Places
… can keep [viewers] from knowing what the plot is you have a chance of holding their interest.” Interaction among the characters, he was willing to bet, would feed the audience’s hunger for narrative.
Hitchcock and Hawks had remarkably similar careers. They both maintained a stream of box-office hits from the 1930s to the …
The Dangerous Dead
… Society.
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Scrolling Through
No American novel of consequence has had a more tortuous or mythologized path to publication than On the Road. Jack Kerouac supposedly composed it in a days-long bout of frenzied typing, feeding a continuous scroll of paper into his typewriter to avoid breaking the flow of inspiration. Yet as Kerouac scholar Isaac Gewirtz has …
Read MoreWhy the Bronx Burned
… progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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