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In honor of tonight’s Strawberry Moon—the lowest full moon in nearly two decades—a luminous cover of The New Yorker from June 1, 1968. #NewYorkerCovers

New Yorker writers and editors share some of their favorite bookshops in N.Y.C. nyer.cm/3SbPLJS

Roses. I can never get over the nested softness of their petals. The ballet of them. A leggy stem’s arabesque. A trio of tutus bending with the wind. Scent of straggling gardens in the rain, of childhood, dreams & secrets. No florists’ roses these. They fall like snow.

Virginia Woolf's writing table, Photo by Gisèle Freund, 1965

“then maybe—just maybe—the hours will carry you into June, when the roses blow.” 🌹 Last Spring by Gottfried Ben (trans. Michael Hofmann)

I read The Safekeep back in February and it remains my favourite book I’ve read this year

Each time when I stand in front of it I think: How did he do it! How did he create that reflection of the yellow lemon On the silver ewer WITH PAINT! Just simply incredible. Detail of Willem Kalf's still life in the Rijksmuseum.

Lord Byron read aloud ghost stories from Fantasmagoriana at Villa Diodati on this night, 16 June 1816, proposing afterward that “each write a ghost story”. From this, two masterworks of Gothic literature would be born: Mary Shelley’s #Frankenstein and Dr. Polidori’s The Vampyre.

This is hilarious

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

The Petersyn Witch Fortune Telling Cup. Lovely design & an auction favourite. But information on its origin confused & scant. But I've finally found who Petersyn was & when it was first made - 1909.

huge day for those of us who've never used chatgpt and also have superiority complexes