Alive is an exciting encyclopedia of weird scientific projects that explore what it means to be alive, and it’s perfect for anyone curious about what it will mean to be a human in the future. ... Read full Story
Hyewon Yum reflects on a special Korean seaweed soup that celebrates motherhood and served as the inspiration for her picture book, A Spoonful of the Sea. ... Read full Story
A woman’s hand bursts out of a newly dug grave in the beginning of The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson—and things only get more chilling from there. ... Read full Story
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Arundhati Roy’s love-hate relationship with her dramatic, domineering, visionary mother is at the center of her fabulous memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. ... Read full Story
Startlingly empathetic and deeply strange, Bitter Karella’s psychedelic horror novel Moonflow will fill the reader with both wonder and disgust on every page. ... Read full Story
Architectural Digest’s luxe AD at Home lets readers look inside the domestic lives of some of the world’s most glamorous celebrities. Think of it as an almanac for aspirational living. ... Read full Story
Hot Desk is a romp through post-COVID-19 New York’s literary scene, pitting two young, ambitious book editors against unseen foes and questions of legacy. ... Read full Story
“This isn’t new territory for the band—beginning with 2018’s Modern Meta Physic, Peel Dream Magazine have taken cues from bands like Stereolab and Pram, exploring the ways that rigid, droning repetition can make time feel rubbery. As they snap back into the present, Black sings, ‘Millions of light years, all of them ours.’ The past and future fold into themselves, braided together in perpetuity.” — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 4 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
Perpetuity is a “forever” word—not in the sense that it relates to a lifelong relationship (as in “forever home”), but because it concerns the concept of, well, forever. Not only can perpetuity refer to infinite time, aka eternity, but it also has specific legal and financial uses, as for certain arrangements in wills and for annuities that are payable forever, or at least for the foreseeable future. The word ultimately comes from the Latin adjective perpetuus, meaning “continual” or “uninterrupted.” Perpetuus is the ancestor of several additional “forever” words, including the verb perpetuate (“to cause to last indefinitely”) and the adjective perpetual (“continuing forever,” “occurring continually”). A lesser known descendent, perpetuana, is now mostly encountered in historical works, as it refers to a type of durable wool or worsted fabric made in England only from the late 16th through the 18th centuries. Alas, nothing is truly forever.