In popular culture, menopause is typically associated with hot flushes. In our Menopause: What's Changed? exhibition, we invite visitors to drop a pebble if they experience any of these symptoms. And it turns out, hot flushes are much less common than brain fog or mood symptoms!
To the dozens of Christian Zionists in our inbox objecting to our children’s book “Human Rights” by Yayo Herrero, supposedly because it includes ‘deeply antisemitic material,’ have you considered that maybe an illustration of the Palestinian flag is not antisemitic material
In Jesse Ball’s Series III edition, THE HISTORY OF THE DOLLS AND WHAT THEY DID, young playmates Vivian and Abigail enact a toy war of feminine terror. Stories have histories and actions consequences, in the world of children, and urgently, beyond it.
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Jacqueline Harpman’s speculative fiction gives us the conditions of a world with no time, no future, no inhabited duration. And Ros Schwartz’s translation is breathtaking: each line so perfectly carved to limit what can be felt. A must-read.
A few years ago, Catherine Lacey emailed me and we talked about what it meant for a book to be dangerous. We continued that conversation for BLANK @dirtyverse in honor of her new book THE MÖBIUS BOOK, out today: https://t.co/8QZEoR6wq1
from my essay on the political space-time of the short story @literaryhub. it's the intro to the excellent 22 Fictions: New Writing from @DesperateLit & @BrickLaneBooks edited by Kate Ellis & @RobertGreer90 & published yesterday!
read it here:
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Nicholas Royle collects books. He also writes books about them. His next title, “Finders, Keepers,” focuses not on the books but on the things tucked inside. A rail ticket. A page from a London guidebook. A letter. All clues to the lives of past readers. https://t.co/QKWbtecwIC
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487