Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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December 22, 2006 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

Those college freshmen were right: Shakespeare messes with your mind, man.

“I will leave it to historians and social scientists to work out why, but it seems to me that, for several hundred years, the English have had a very peculiar approach to the representation of the sexes on stage; and, nowadays, in the other media.”

Oooo, new Amis

“When left to their natural habitat, flying monkeys rarely interact with humans. They avoid towns, cities, and four-lane highways. If you cross the state via the Kansas Turnpike or I-70, you’ll never see one.” (via Pharyngula)

Gawker scooped The New York Times. Also, ouch.

Good question. Especially since people my age don’t know how to operate fax machines (true!).

Is it really such a surprise that Hemingway’s cats also cause trouble?

About celebrity, they are always right,
The Young Pundits: how well they televise
Its shallow ambition

KR Fiction Editor Nancy Zafris (who sometimes appears here) interviews Holly Goddard Jones, one of the authors appearing in our Winter 2007 issue. Read her story “Life Expectancy” here.