Dec 13, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVIII 〜 Compensating Welcome to the 258th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque.
Dec 08, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVII 〜 In moderation Welcome to the 257th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Dec 04, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.
Dec 02, 2025 from Improve Something Today Going wrong, going great: notes for December 2025 2½ readings on seeing failures & responding to them. Celebrating my accomplished & wonderful pals.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention.
Nov 30, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLVI 〜 Thankful Bulls Prefatory Note Note: I am sending the newsletter late because I ran into a technical issue when I was preparing to send it this afternoon. (I had an extraneous tag in the header which was messting ...
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) French lithographs of the Eiffel Tower and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private ...
Nov 23, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Another Sunday Another Sunday. It started with hope but the hope was crushed by crankiness. Had planned yesterday to go to the book fair with my sister and my mother. It is ruined. Plans were cancelled. I sat wit...
Nov 22, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLV 〜 Net catch rating Welcome to the 255th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 20, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
Nov 19, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria An Update on Life, Failures, and Here-and-There As you can notice, I have successfully abandoned my beautifully crafted, loaded-with-hopes NovPoWriMo project with the help of failure just after one week. Yes, and you know what? I am not even goi...
Nov 18, 2025 from Improve Something Today Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.
Nov 15, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIV 〜 Blue light buyout Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 08, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIII 〜 NewsELEC Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 07, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 7 — Marginalia Poetry DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the edges of a text. In medieval manuscripts, scribes glossed, quibbled, even sketche...
