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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith

The Rise of the Corporate Rave

The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...

The Bone Rush

Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free

The people’s atheist

The Having/Doing job gap

Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again

Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”

Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...

A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods

Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...

A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...

Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”

The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me

Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico

Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’

A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.

Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display

Open Call 2027: Jentel Artist Residency

I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city...

A High-Definition Cinematic Video Relives NASA’s Artemis II Mission

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey

From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a...

Isolated, Scared, Forlorn: The Heartbreaking Final Months of Virginia Giuffre’s Life

The Skinner revolution

A Stolen Dove Takes Flight Again

Beyond Greece and Rome

The power of positive argument

The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life”

Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure

From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

Pointless banality and the uncanny valley

Borges on How to Conquer Time

How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity

Edwin Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art

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