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Oh, to be a coyote playing on the beach in San Francisco. 📹 TikTok user gabbymickeymouseicius

Sophie Thatcher makeup inspired by Belladonna of Sadness (1973). Belladonna of Sadness (1973) is a psychedelic Japanese classic full of surrealism, beauty, and tragedy. The main character Jeanne’s makeup feels like part of her story — long liner, dreamy eyes, and dramatic touches showing her shift from innocence to pow... See more

Award-winning Canadian poet, prose writer, translator, and classicist Anne Carson (b. 1950) on translation, from a 2001 discussion with Brighde Mullin for the Lannan Foundation. Carson describes how her approach to translation changes based on the purpose of the project. She compares her “kind of wacky” translations of... See more