We’re delighted to announce the stories and authors included in our upcoming Loki book! Selected from submissions, eighteen brand new stories see their first publication here, from authors inspired by...

Every year, on this date, I find myself thinking of Francisco Goya—not just the painter, but the man: the court chronicler, the satirist, the wounded citizen, the exiled skeptic. Goya was born on...

On this day, someone wrote ...

Why the Poet of Anxiety Speaks to Our Times

​“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” These words, penned by John Keats over two centuries ago, have endured as a testament to the power of beauty to outlast the fleeting nature of time. In...

Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of timelessness in music.

I didn’t love Emily Dickinson at first. In fact, I resisted her entirely. She was assigned reading in my high school English class, introduced with reverent solemnity—“the reclusive genius of...

Jeffery Allen Tobin, a political scientist by some cosmic mistake, wades through the murky waters of U.S. foreign policy in South Florida, much to the dismay of real experts. After hours, he retreats ...

Alt: a bald man wearing glasses is making a funny face while sitting in front of a wall .

I recently walked into a bookstore, an experience that always fills me with a mix of nostalgia and anticipation. The science fiction/fantasy section, always one of my favorite haunts, glimmered with.....

Jeffery Allen Tobin

I’m currently reading Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927,” which presents a striking irony in Charles Lindbergh’s meteoric rise to fame. Lindbergh’s 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic made him ...

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