May 2024

May 2024

Read:

Fiction:

• Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham (K)
• Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham (K)
• Traitor’s Purse by Margery Allingham (K)
• Coroner’s Pidgin by Margery Allingham (K)

 

 

Shorts:

• A SKELETON OUT OF THE CLOSET BY J.B.POLK (https://everydayfiction.com/a-skeleton-out-of-the-closet-by-jbpolk/)
• Alone Alarm by Jonathan Carroll (https://jonathancarroll.com/alone-alarm-d9d2d6408c67)
• Smartening Up by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton (https://granta.com/smartening-up/)
• We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read by CAROLINE M. YOACHIM (https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/)
• Honeysuckle Cottgae by P G Wodehouse

 

Non-fiction:

• “Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages by Manvir Singh (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/dune-and-the-delicate-art-of-making-fictional-languages)
• Scalzi on Film: The Aesthetics of Spectacle: A Look at Dune in 1984 and 2024 BY JOHN SCALZI (https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scalzi-on-film-the-aesthetics-of-spectacle-a-look-at-dune-in-1984-and-2024/)
• Lucy Clifford, ‘The New Mother’ (1882) by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/lucy-clifford-the-new-mother-1882-cd2b8771129d)
• Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead (https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/shanidar-z-face-revealed)
• The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’ by Simon Hattenstone (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/29/the-radical-ravishing-rebirth-of-tracey-emin-i-didnt-want-to-die-as-some-mediocre-yba)
• How it feels to get an AI email from a friend by Neven Mrgan (https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/)
• Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by an Infamous Mind-Altering Parasite by MICHELLE STARR (https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-happens-to-wolves-infected-by-an-infamous-mind-altering-parasite)
• Yo, Rapunzel! by Kyle Kirrin (https://podcastle.org/2020/01/28/podcastle-611-yo-rapunzel/)
• The North Pole Workshops by MARI NESS (https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-north-pole-workshops/)
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Poetry:

•  The Night Hunt by Thomas MacDonagh (https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/06/poem-of-the-week-the-night-hunt-by-thomas-macdonagh)