ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database . “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025 . (It’s not new, but I just started listening to Milkman by Anna Burns and it’s really good so far.) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 , incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program functions like an audio magazine”) and Our Ancestors Were Messy (“this delightful show recounts stories from the pre-civil-rights era in the vein of social pages & gossip columns”). 💬 Join the discussion
At Villa Lontana in Rome, 'Bar Far' is a functional bar and an art installation in one. 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 Clementine Keith-Roach and
Today, in the spirit of what lies ahead, I want to look back at the work that propelled me forward.
"The main trouble with 1587 Prime isn’t its child-like idea of luxury. It’s that it’s a steakhouse that doesn’t nail the steaks."
Bless hindsight for how it clarifies the confusions of time, for how precisely it plots the true highs and lows on the terrain map of life once the quakes of the moment have died down, for how dispassionately it reveals what was a fleeting enthusiasm and what a lifelong gift.
Perhaps this has happened to you: You’re at the reference desk of the library, with the answer to any question available–and you can’t think of anything to ask. And there’s the vegetable blindness that occurs at a really good farmer’s market. After a few stalls, it’s hard to
One can easily imagine a reader enjoying both The Lord of the Rings and Dune. Both of those works of epic fantasy were published in the form of a series of long novels beginning in the mid-twentieth century; both create elaborate worlds of their own, right down to details of
If you’re a regular listener, you know that Ezra Klein wraps up his podcast interviews with a familiar question: what three books would you recommend to the audience? When Klein interviewed Brian Eno in October, the producer had these three books to offer. First up was Printing
A rare Jacob Lawrence painting, the Louvre’s first video artwork, a trove of Indigenous art, and a Frank Lloyd Wright house are on this year’s list.
Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the earlier LLMs, which couldn’t math their way out of a wet paper bag. Your
Conservatives are trying to roll the Constitution back to the pre-Civil War version . “It will be a society of the dominators and the dominated. But it will not be a democracy worthy of the name.”