Elizabeth Bastos has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and writes at her blog 19th-Century Lady Naturalist. Follow her on Twitter: @elizabethbastos
All winter I’ve been in a not-fit-for-public-appearances outfit of honey-badger-don’t-give-s^%$ yoga pants. I looked at myself in the full length ...
The joke among mothers my age with young kids is to ask, “Read any novels lately?” and then laugh like ...
As you all know I live in the Baltimore suburbs, an area of the world that is at the forefront ...
While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
At the King’s Table: Royal Dining Through the Ages by Susanne Groom is what to read while wiping the remains ...
This is the time of year when I won’t be found without a pit crew of a full spectrum lightbox, ...
William Jennings Bryan said, “On the Fourth of July we celebrate our Independence; on Thanksgiving we acknowledge our dependence.” And ...
“The holidays are upon us,” my mother used to say, implying the holidays were like Baskervilleian hell hounds after our ...
After finishing Edmund de Waal’s The Hare With The Amber Eye I cast my eye around the house looking for ...
Published in 1908, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is childhood read-aloud gold. The word hamper is used, languorous ...