Nothing Works in Trump’s America — Except Racism . “Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally, and his supporters value the latter so much that they forgive the former.”
The 2026 issue of the HTML Review , “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”.
Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type design . “The idea of coming up with an original alphabet design fired my imagination. And learning that it was possible to design type professionally was a revelation.”
Mirchandani explores mythology and perception through the Southeast Asian mythological tradition of apsaras. 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
Blockbuster exhibitions at The Met and MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum announces African art gallery, and things to do during a beautiful spring week.
“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry itself, Halt and Catch Fire’s staying power has only increased . The story it tells still has something to say about our present-day reality.”
"There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death. Meanwhile, the real thing operated just outside my window."
“Revisiting Jay-Z's hustler masterpiece—released on his own label at age 25—in the rapper's billionaire era.”
"Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself."
Join us on April 15 for a conversation with social justice artist and recent MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Tonika Lewis Johnson and Hyperallergic Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia.
For the latest episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman interviews Timothy Snyder about “how we misunderstand freedom, why truth and empathy are under threat, and what this political moment asks of us”. Millman is an *excellent* interviewer.
Endgame for the Open Web , brought on by LLM bots, content summarizing while driving no traffic, increasing paywalls for information of all kinds, locking down APIs (due to AI abuse), attacks on Wikipedia, disruption of open source communities, etc.
NASA’s LRO found a new crater on the Moon …it’s 225 meters across and 43 meters deep. “According to predictions based on other lunar landmarks, a crater that big should form only once in 139 years.”
In a conversation with economist Paul Krugman , climate journalist David Roberts asserts that the United States and China are going in different directions in energy, one forwards and one back. One of the grand international stories right now — though it’s very hard when
"In a place denied access to basic forensic technology—and where people disappear into Israeli detention—the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager."
Glimpse the teensy-tiny world of these wondrous, amoeba-like organisms. 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 Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro
Help! My Favorite Athlete Is an Idiot (Alt headline: When Sports Heroes Have Terrible Opinions). “Just root for the jersey and not necessarily the nitwit wearing it?”
A new biography chronicles the history and evolution of the reserved artist who has always let his pen do the talking
"Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself."
Thieves walk off with three masterpieces in under three minutes, photos from No Kings, new galleries for the Brooklyn Museum's Africa collection, and more.
"Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do."
A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state - by Miles Kellerman Read on Aeon
Most of us would like to live with wonder, grace and optimism. Perhaps it pays to practice this in advance. When considering any given moment, is there a glimmer of good worth focusing on, even making a comment about? Our narrative of reality often becomes our reality.
Whether or not we believe in any god, most of us here in the twenty-first century have the impression of divine rulers overlooking humanity with at least theoretical love and benevolence. They forgive us, they have plans for us, they never close a door without opening a window,
From Yale professor Paul North comes a chapter-by-chapter study of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1. According to the description that accompanies the course on YouTube, this “book from 1872 is still the best guide to the predatory economic and
"Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person."