By: Joshua Glenn

From THE PASTEL CITY and THE LATHE OF HEAVEN to THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

By: John Holbo

Vs. “Grandma’s old recipe/For being better and better.”

By: Lynn Peril

Damsey Wilson’s THE DARK MARE — imagining a female president, in 1952.

By: John Hilgart

MAKING GRATEFUL DEAD ALBUMS — in a parallel universe.

By: Tom Nealon

REVUE DES MENUS — who collected this treasure trove of menus?

By: Joshua Glenn

From HOMBRE and SOLARIS to JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

By: Anshuman Iddamsetty

THE FULL BODY PROJECT — the moment belongs to no one else.

By: Joshua Glenn

Roald Dahl’s JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.

By: Adam McGovern

Other Americas, in graphic detail

By: James Parker

“It bloats the franchise./It increases its pantsize.”

By: Colin Dickey

Notes on the Heron

By: Colin Dickey

At the Edge of the Map — what do all those medieval monsters signify?

By: Lynn Peril

I’m Your Venus — the Ouija Board murder of 1933.

By: Claire Lehmann

THE APPARATUS REVEAL

By: Erik Davis

Tuxedomoon’s “Time to Lose”: a haunting layered confection of longing and regret.