Helen Fisher in her office in Manhattan in 2005. Her research was driven by a belief that there was an untapped scientific basis for the intense, often irrational, human mating drive. Helen E. Fisher, a biological anthropologist who went looking for love in the brain circuitry of people who were besotted as well as people […]
Photo by noah eleazar on Unsplash As a writer of both prose and poetry, I love to read work that falls between genres. Whether it’s fiction that leans into lyricism so unabashedly it should be called a poem, or a poem so loaded with narrative that it is, in effect, a lyrical essay, I celebrate […]
Hello, writers and frenz. The word is “Faugh!” As expletives go, it’s sprinkled around 18th and 19th century British lit, so probably in conversation too, if disappearing in the 20th, perhaps due to what it sounds and maybe looks like it means, which some sources say it doesn’t: Irish regiments in various armies reportedly used […]
