Posted 1 week ago

beyoncearthistory:

Edouard Manet, “Olympia”/ Beyonce, “Check On It”

Posted 3 weeks ago

verymarykate:

season finale!! “DIAMONDS ARE MY ONLY FRIENDS”

Posted 2 months ago
Posted 4 months ago

Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar win National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award

wwnorton:

Two giants of the feminist movement, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, have been named winners of the 2013 lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle. Their books, particularly The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) and The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (1985), changed the shape of literary criticism and influenced generations of students and scholars.

Read Ron Charles’ full writeup at the Washington Post.

Posted 4 months ago

Best gif ever? Thanks to Buzzfeed for making it. 

Posted 4 months ago

boobsradley:

But … Miami.

Posted 5 months ago
Posted 5 months ago

trueconfections:

digginmypotatoes:

The Wolf

LOLz. Too true.

(Source: ihatepeacocks)

Posted 6 months ago
My feelings about Xtina’s new album Lotus

My feelings about Xtina’s new album Lotus

Posted 6 months ago

W. W. Norton: The Snow

wwnorton:

It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.

It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, —
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.

It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It…

Posted 6 months ago

Storm

wwnorton:

It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still.
Eclipse was all we could see at the window,
And awe was all we could feel.

By and by the boldest stole out of his covert,
To see if time was there. 
Nature was in her beryl apron,
Mixing fresher air.

-Emily Dickinson

Posted 7 months ago
wwnorton:

To Crunk, To Crunkle: to cry like a crane.
Source: The New and complete American encyclopedia, 1820

wwnorton:

To Crunk, To Crunkle: to cry like a crane.

Source: The New and complete American encyclopedia, 1820

Posted 7 months ago
Posted 7 months ago
Philosophy steps forth and insists that the soul is to be satisfied with abstractions. As if human nature were anything without its affections!
Henry Ware Jr, The Personality of the Deity
Posted 7 months ago

boobsradley:

Not where I was going with that but ok.