If you’ve heard Run‑D.M.C.‘s Raising Hell, Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, Johnny Cash’s American Recordings, or Adele’s 21, you’ve heard the work of Rick Rubin. Yet even if you’ve listened closely to every song on which he’s been credited as a producer over the
Nine essays and interviews from literature's favorite laureate of compassion.
?si=2xjPU8WlS7Yk5tRI During her lifetime, the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) composed roughly 77 songs and hymns. She remains the earliest known woman composer in Western classical music and one of the most important composers of the High Middle Ages. In her
Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
"The universe is the ultimate free lunch."
Above, Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher explain how everyday Americans can push back against government overreach—by focusing on the economic decisions they make each day. “Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets,” says Galloway. Ergo, it’s time for an
Fury and grief are reverberating through the creative community after federal agents shot the 37-year-old ICU nurse.
"Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters."
The gallerist who put many European artists on the map in the US described her approach as finding a “humanistic concern” across different visual practices.
Julia Fernandez's stop-motion animation for "Dirt" is a poetic ode to two tactile media. 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 A Delightfully Tactile
Plus, a sexual history of the internet as told by sex workers and cyberfeminists.
Ravishing otherworldly wonders of the cosmos beneath the surface, from the first expedition to prove that life exists in the depths.
A new exhibition rejects Western colonialism as a framework for understanding African aesthetic production.
The painting predates 66,000 year-old rock art attributed to Neanderthals in Spain, which was previously believed to be the earliest example of its kind.
A collection of dartboards used in different areas of the UK . “The closure of pubs and leagues not being fed with new players, unfortunately, leads to some of the boards just being consigned to history.”
Scientists have detected a swole neutrino , a potential signal from a primordial black hole, which may have formed “before there were even atoms, let alone stars”.
Every year since 2016, Literary Hub has asked a group of book cover designers for their picks for the best book covers of the year. Using 10 years of data, here are their picks for the best covers of the last decade . I’ve included a few of my personal favorites below.
The Vancouver-based artist employs the colorful bricks in a variety of geometric patterns and low-relief textures. 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
"An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls... A peace for gods; a divine emptiness."
“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox .
An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic or revisionist.
There's something ineffably satisfying about a room in miniature. 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 In ‘Reading the Rooms,’ Gretchen Scherer ‘Opens
“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.”
M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror. ”
Thomas Zimmer on the stakes of Minnesota’s struggle against tyranny . “A society that has any aspiration to be free and democratic cannot — it must not! — tolerate the existence of an agency like ICE.”
ICE/DHS has killed nine people in 2026 (that we know of) : Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos, Alex Pretti, and Renee Good.
Emily Witt reports on The Battle for Minneapolis for the New Yorker. “Federal agents attempting to stop U.S. citizens from monitoring them have broken observers’ car windows, doused them with pepper spray, and shoved protesters to the ground.”
For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Also: Sprinkler debacle at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Ellen Harvey’s lost places, and a galaxy of armor.
Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that? - by Elay Shech Read on Aeon
"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined."