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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Rapunzel Has Insomnia

    7 September 2025

    Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: Her DNA smells of roses and lavender and her days are spent searching mirrors for keys to the future her author has already denied her.

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    Do Not Pet While Working

    24 August 2025

    Kira Córdova — Excerpt: If you have an 18th-century British military kink, I beg you, don’t tell me.

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    The Heroines in Hadestown: Objects of Desire versus Agents of Affection

    17 August 2025

    Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.

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    January

    22 June 2025

    Bidisha Satpathy — Excerpt: In the mirror, I look like I did in December, with an addition of about seven greying hair.

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    On Coffee and Usefulness

    8 June 2025

    Gary Finnegan — Excerpt: While every other aspiring sophisticate was splashing water into brown dust, we knew a better way.

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