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Discover 20 Historical Christmas Recipes: Fruitcake, Gingerbread, Figgy Pudding & More
One can hardly consider the Christmas season for long, at least in the English-speaking world, without the work of Charles Dickens coming to mind. That owes for the most part, of course, to A Christmas Carol, the novella that revived the public culture of a holiday that had
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2025 Edition
Hyperallergic’s annual antidote to the lists of wealthy collectors, royals, and so-called tastemakers that pervade the art media.
Bookshop’s Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025
For finding a good book, there is no substitute for going into your local independent bookstore and browsing what’s on the front tables, the bestsellers shelf, and the staff picks. But bookshop.org is an amalgam of online sales some of the best indie bookstores in the country
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The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore . “To truly understand living systems as self-organized, autonomous agents, physicists need to abandon their ‘just the particles, ma’am’ mentality.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts Get to the Heart of Being Human
Through her creative lives as author, illustrator, painter, quilter, sculptor, and activist, Ringgold spoke to the urgency and vulnerability of life.
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Allspice is a single spice?! “Allspice is the dried fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper… “Cloning Minesweeper isn’t...
We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper… “Cloning Minesweeper isn’t a trivial task that can be done in just a handful of lines of code, but it’s also not an incredibly complex system that requires many interlocking moving parts.” 💬 Join the discussion on
Wes Anderson Brings Joseph Cornell’s Studio to Life
The whimsical filmmaker recreated the Queens artist's home studio at Gagosian Gallery in Paris, the city Cornell longed for but never visited.
Happy Holidays, New York!
A letter to Mayor Mamdani, medieval psalms at the Morgan, and divine chaos at The Met.
The Case for a Public Social Media Platform. “What if the United...
The Case for a Public Social Media Platform . “What if the United States government decided to, overnight, nationalize Facebook and make it a digital division of the post office. What would that look like?” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Winter Solstice
After a long period of feeling frozen, the new year hints at signs of thaw and forward movement.
If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
Watch Jonas Wolf and three friends sing a choral arrangement of the Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive in the style of a madrigal . Just in case (like the me of 1 minute ago) you don’t know what that is (although you will recognize it from just a few seconds of listening to the video),
Finland uses a progressive scale for speeding tickets; the fine amount is...
Finland uses a progressive scale for speeding tickets; the fine amount is based in part on income. In 2023, a businessman got hit with a €121,000 fine . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmutation of energy and matter, despite living in bodies and minds whose cells and
Meticulously Sculpted Books by Brian Dettmer Explore the Inner Workings of Information
In 'In·Formation,' out-of-date reference books are troves of imagery and data. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Meticulously Sculpted Books by Brian
Top 10 Alternative Christmas Movie Lists: Horror, Action, Comedy & More
Die Hard is a Christmas movie. That once-contrarian categorization has increasingly been accepted over the past couple of decades, at least since an editor with whom I’ve often worked first declared it in a Slate roundup. As a result, John McTiernan’s sturdy piece of
Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics
“White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades later