i’m sorry but this is quite clearly a haunted murder panda and/or the protagonist of moshfegh’s next novel. do not buy: an assortment of random oddities that one preeminent author is selling her online emporium—via Nag on the Lake’s Sunday Links (check it out!)
quasi-modal: apparently “thy shall be done” is a thing now
eye of the beholder: an AI visits a contemporary art museum printers’ auxiliaries: a beautiful 1940 book of typefaces from the Gujarati foundry
if marisol and nilofer are the only non-white women at the staff meeting, how frequently will each be called by the other’s name: word problems for female professionals that aren’t so non-sequitur
pulp power: the mainstay illustrative style of 1930s and 40s serial fiction
heat dumping: searching for the etymology of the adaptive behaviour of splooting—which is referred to in England as squirrel “pancaking”
world englishes: the OED on Irish’s contribution to language—see previously
a lamb himself: an excerpt from Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel Lapvona
