Cake and Black Magic Mask (2023)Pie, and Other News
By Sadie Stein
On the Shelf
2666, in pie-chart form. (Black, in case you were wondering, represents “dread, unease, foreboding.”)
Not merely one book-themed cupcake, but a series. (We look forward to 2666.)
“Let us not speak of the cookbooks.” A pair of academics attempt to organize their library.
There is no Hilary Mantel–Kate Middleton feud!
Mantel just called the duchess “a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung … without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character.” And no Anne Boleyn.