Waiting room at Grand Central Station, 1952.

Members of the American “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” testing the effects of syncopation on a polar bear in the zoo, 1920s.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)

Minnesota Point from the hill above Duluth in 1875

Photographer Chen Chengguang’s Photos of ospreys In hunting mode.

A divorcing couple dividing beanie babies in court, 1999

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Inktober A bedroom in Northampton (Massachusetts) last October 2019

“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection. That is why I need music.”

—The Gay Science, §368 (edited excerpt).

Fox in Autumn by Jo Grundy