Turpentine in Time

Each community had an overseer who supervised the operations and the commissary. He also enforced the law.

When Witches Take Flight

I was quickly surprised to find that flight — a defining feature of the modern image of the witch — figured relatively little in the earliest medieval sources.

Man of Smoke

“I was trying to write the life of a man who had no life. What other options did I have?”

guys (etc)

I had never seen a mustache like that before—so blond and full and pin-neat, as it had to be for the power company.

From A Certain Point Of View

By denying access to the original cuts of the saga films, George Lucas has left us without the critical cultural documents needed for understanding the franchise’s power.