Contemporary Culture Archives

The Mystery Cure

Have you been craving stories about serial killers lately? Me too! And it turns out there are reasons for that.[…]

Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. Today we’re asking Lynda Allen, author[…]

TikTok’s Redacted Statements – that weren’t. In October (2024) I wrote about the exploding pagers and walkie talkies Israel got[…]

A third Downton Abby movie is on the way! It was filmed and will premiere on 12th September 2025. To[…]

Almost a year ago my post offered links to music from YouTube, Get Your Free Music Sample Here. Then in[…]

No, I’m not writing about college presidents and billionaire wives’ dissertations. I’m writing about plagiarism as plot in some of[…]

I belong to two book clubs. One, I started during the pandemic, it’s very informal, and we meet once every[…]

We’re writers and readers so of course we love words. Maybe too much sometimes? I remember a New Yorker cartoon[…]

For the past year and change I’ve worked on a new novel. I loved the story. I loved writing it.[…]

The British environmental activist group, Just Stop Oil, calls for the UK to stop licensing new oil, gas or coal[…]