Occasionally Random

The US military has done an about face on LGBTQ+ rights in just over a decade.

Across galleries, museums, and outdoor sculpture, he connects Indigenous land practices in California, the Hudson Valley, and beyond.

In the nineteenth century, empires fought over science and resources and land. But they also fought over poetry. “The Americans,” John Quinc

On Barbara Pym’s reissued novel of desire, aging, possession, and antiques.

Maritime workers who were basically kidnapped into the British Royal Navy were a key force in the War of Independence.

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I write prompts in the way someone else might write poems, micro-

In 'Silent Friend,' Tony Leung's scientist wonders whether plants are communicating with us — and whether we can communicate back. But how m

Amid all of the kitty-kat meow of today’s Vogue Fem performers, Andre Mizrahi Clark has the stern, calm energy of a lion tipping on its toes

The future is now: enjoy five near-future sci-fi books before they're reality!

For the Americans, narratives about the savagery of the British became an important part of nation-building and a moral justification for ar

In new sculptures that vibrate with color and movement, the artist vivifies the stories of the girls who attempted to escape from a Louisvil

As automation transformed agriculture, advertisements increasingly celebrated physical strength and traditional masculine ideals.

Erin McCoy’s debut novel draws out the uncanny nature of environmental histories of the American South.

It’s Friday night in the house that Keillor built. That would be the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota—home to A Prairie Home Compan