Do you like Jane Austen enough (or not enough) to enjoy parodies and retellings? Did you like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Well maybe, just maybe, you’ll enjoy Melinda Taub’s The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch. The story tries to bring justice to Lydia Bennet, the youngest of Pride and Prejudice‘s Bennet sisters, while she has to deal with her sister Kitty (who’s actually a barn cat), Mr. Wickham (who’s actually a demon) and Mr. Darcy (who reacts to witchcraft the way you’d expect). Described as “Pride and Prejudice” meets “Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell”, only with more witches.

architecture, engineering and construction
Diagrams: the power to tell a story (that might be fake)
I’m currently in Venice for the Architecture Biennale, and I stopped at the local Fondazione Prada for the current exhibition by AMO/OMA, more out of due diligence than anything. I confess I wasn’t expecting much. I was wrong, and I recommend this show to anybody
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