Middle Ages
Story Stream
Call Your Local Wizard May 28, 2024
In 1637, a Londoner named Mabel Gray lost her spoons. After looking everywhere, she set off to consult a wizard. That wizard directed her to a second, who sent her to a third, and she wound up taking a lengthy trek around the city, paying for ferries...
The Condemned May 23, 2024
The shadow of the mountain range crept over the flat, arid land like outstretched fingers on San Juan Diego’s outskirts. Once known for its teeming farming, only a few residents remained in the remote village near the Mexico border. With the work gon...
A Year To Remember-Even if We Don’t Want To May 20, 2024
It’s hard to even think of 2020—a year filled with scams and causes and revolutions and the word unprecedented—as anything other than a big joke. Think about Nancy Pelosi kneeling down for nine minutes in Ghanaian kente cloth. Who was that for? Or wa...
“Baby Reindeer” and “Under the Bridge” Are Strange May 15, 2024
When Donny Dunn (Richard Gadd), the protagonist of the autobiographical Netflix sensation “Baby Reindeer,” recalls the act of kindness toward a stranger that would come to derail his life, his initial explanation is deceptively simple: “I felt sorry ...
Miranda July’s New Novel Will Ignite Your Group Chats May 07, 2024
There is something vague and unseeing in the gaze young women cast at older ones. Those figures paddling across the slough of middle age, headed toward the glowing shores of the golden years — the ones no longer desirable but, inconveniently, not yet...
How Fiction Became Edible May 02, 2024
When Chelsea Monroe-Cassel began chronicling the foods of Games of Thrones for her punnily named cookbook A Feast of Ice and Fire, she looked for culinary inspiration in the recipes of the Middle Ages.We’re talking properly medieval stuff. The sorts ...
