Landmines: More Than Just a Side Dish Landmines are often used in sports performance and fitness training as aids. The range of motion required makes it a great functional tool for improving core strength and rotation. But landmines should not be viewed simply as a “side dish” training…

Every month, we search dozens of soon-to-be-published books, to get great ideas and writing for Overview’site. Often we are surprised by certain paragraphs or sentences from the kitchen that pile up on our counters and spill onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack,…

All photographs courtesy of the author. One Easter Sunday, I attended a screening of the film Jesus Christ Superstar put on by my friend at the Brooklyn, New York, office of the well-respected literary magazine where she worked. There were about eight people there. All appeared to be…

Charles West Cope, Hope Deferred, and Hope and Fear Igniting Hopevia Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In London, rubbish is called rubbish and throwing it away is a science. There are rubbish bags, compost bags and recycling bags, bags which are awarded by the local neighborhood council and will…

Photograph by Nancy Crampton. Over a morning cappuccino in a small but lively European café that spilled onto the central square of a town near the sea, I first read “The Country Husband,” my introduction to John Cheever, on a website I later discovered was inaccessible in the…

The Wishing Well, Summer 1979. All images reproduced with permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. “I am once again looking for a special woman to share my life with,” begins L-231; she follows with a list of desired qualities (incurably romantic, strong Christian values) and undesired ones (drug…

Photo courtesy of Lucy Ives. Novelist and critic Lucy Ives began compiling writing prompts, sometimes spontaneously in the classes she taught. The clues grew to a collection of three hundred and sixty-five, which will be published as a book this year. We would like to share some of…

Apa itu RPE? RPE adalah singkatan dari “Tingkat Pengerahan yang Dirasakan.” Ini adalah cara untuk menilai seberapa sulit suatu latihan terasa pada skala 1 hingga 10. RPE dapat digunakan dalam beberapa cara berbeda. Anda dapat menggunakannya untuk menggantikan persentase dalam pemrograman untuk menunjukkan seberapa sulit atau mudahnya suatu…

Ghostly light in a dark theater. Photo by Jon Ellwood, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. During a week in December when violence seemed to occur in every home, I watched two dramas about women risking their own lives: Hedda Gabler at the Yale Repertory Theater…