Mary Sue is most frequently used as a noun (a Mary Sue) or modifier (a Mary Sue story), although it may also sometimes appear as a verb, to Mary-Sue, meaning “to insert oneself into a fictional story/character.” Male Mary Sues are sometimes called Marty Stu or Gary Stu, often ass...
In a new commission that is both object and environment, Pritzker Prize-winning architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron with artist/activist Ai Weiwei explore the meaning of public space in our surveillance-laden world, referencing the story of Hansel and Gretel in which the children lose ...
A hormonal solution to the issue of male birth control — which hasn’t had a major step forward as a field since the advent of the condom about a billion years ago — is especially promising because it opens up birth control for men that is not only reversible, but as easy to administ...
Over the course of her decades long writing career, Mary Wilkins Freeman’s stories are preoccupied, obsessed even, with houses whose modesty belie the layers of meaning behind these unassuming spaces that are often tense with contradiction. Not surprisingly, then, Freeman’s work is well-known ...