Baked Apples in Bacon Fat: A Thrifty Depression-Era Dessert from Local Orchards
Autumn on Long Island’s North Shore arrives like a slow exhalation — the last heat…
WWI Meatless Loaf: Utilizing North Fork Walnuts for Protein Substitution
Food has always followed war. Not in the romanticized sense of soldiers sharing rations around…
The Wreck of the HMS Culloden: How a 74-Gun British Warship Met Its End on the Rocks of Montauk
Two o’clock in the morning. January 23, 1781. A nor’easter is tearing through Block Island…
Corporate Apathy and Artificial Intelligence: Martha Wells’ Continued Success with All Systems Red
Somewhere between the relentless optimization pressures of late-stage capitalism and the existential murmur of machines…
Decoding the Metafiction in Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author: Sentient Robots and Alternate Earths
Roland Barthes published his famous 1967 essay “The Death of the Author” as an act…
When the Governor Module Is the Point: A Review of Martha Wells’ All Systems Red
Somewhere in the first thirty pages of Martha Wells’ All Systems Red, the novella that…
