Life According to Sylvia Snowden and Joan Semmel

Also: a graffiti artist's protest against ICE deportations, TIME Magazine's miserable "Person of the Year" cover, and the enduring relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Hyperallergic • 1h

Better than the cheap alternative

Frozen pizza changed the game for many pizzerias. If you couldn’t offer something better than what I had in my freezer, what do I need you for? If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks. Does working with your non-profit

Seth's Blog • 2h

Take a Tour of 18th-Century London, Recreated with AI

If you want to know what it was like to live in seventeenth-century London, read the diary of Samuel Pepys. While doing so, take note of his frequent references to the uncleanliness of the city’s streets: “very dirty and troublesome to walk through,” “mighty dirty after the

Open Culture • 2h

Best of 2025: Our Most Popular Originals of the Year

Our 10 most-read Longreads essays of 2025.

Longreads • 2h

Tom Jones Performs Prince’s “Purple Rain” Accompanied by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour (1992)

Over the decades, Tom Jones has performed with the best of them. In 1969, we can find him singing “Long Time Gone” with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and taking them delightfully by surprise. The same goes for his duet with Janis Joplin in that same year. Now fast forward to

Open Culture • 3h

A Decalogue for the Dignity of Growing Old: Eva Perón’s Revolutionary Rights of the Elderly

In modern society, Simone de Beauvoir observed in her later years, “it is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life” — it is something upon which the vast majority of humanity looks upon “with sorrow and rebellion,” dreading it more than death itself. But

The Marginalian • 19h