The Little Book That Lost Its Author By Amber Caron Feature How will artificial intelligence change literature?
Looking for Carolina Maria de Jesus By Tari Ngangura Feature For a brief period in the 1960s, the Afro-Brazilian author of the memoir “Child of the Dark” was one of the most well-known writers in the world.
Pages You Can Dance To: A Book List By Brittany Allen Feature Either Martin Mull or Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello once said writing about music is as pointless as dancing about architecture. Which doesn’t account for how I’ve danced to all these books.
Images Present Themselves: A Conversation With Photographer Burk Uzzle By Tom Maxwell Feature Some of the most iconic images get captured when you’re just out for a stroll. What you do with these images is a political act.
I’ll Be Loving You Forever By Rebecca Schuman Feature My best friend and the New Kids on the Block, 30 years later.
‘Horror Is a Soothing Genre … It’s Upfront About How Scary It Is To Be a Woman.’ By Laura Barcella Feature Sady Doyle discusses the connection she draws between society’s monstrous treatment of women and woman’s archetypal monstrosity.
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 By Danielle Jackson Reading List An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge By Darryn King Feature SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.
Between Jesmyn and Ta-Nehisi By Katie Kosma Highlight Author Jesmyn Ward sits down with Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss slavery, superheroes, and how much you have to hate yourself to enjoy being famous.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus By Soraya Roberts Feature Media and entertainment grounded in empathy are a critical part of a saner culture — and we can all help by actively producing, seeking, and supporting it.
On Beauty and Disability By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Examining the body, disability, and the damaging idea of objective beauty.
Nashville contra Jaws, 1975 By Longreads Feature In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.
Death Proof By Soraya Roberts Feature With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while he plays god with another piece of history.
‘My Teachers Said We Weren’t Allowed To Use Them.’ By Tobias Carroll Feature How Cecelia Watson learned to stop worrying and love the semicolon.
Searching for The Sundays By David Obuchowski Feature When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
On, In, or Near the Sea: A Book List By Alison Fields Reading List Summer’s almost over. Alison Fields curated a list of beach-based books to make you feel like you’re still breathing in that sweet sea air.
‘I Surprise Myself With This Refusal To Let Go’: Kate Zambreno on the ‘Ghostly Correspondence’ By Tobias Carroll Feature “I thought for sure, I’ll never write about Rilke again. I’m done with Rilke! I’m sick of Rilke! Rilke — no more. But then the other day … I just started researching something about Rilke.”
The First Book By Sarah Menkedick Feature Eleven women writers on this apocryphal publishing milestone.
Understanding Craig Stecyk By Joe Donnelly Feature Stecyk defined Southern California’s subversive, skateboard aesthetic and changed art and culture in the process, but that doesn’t mean he wants to talk about it.
This (Wo)Man’s Work By Soraya Roberts Feature When men devalue the labor of women like Andrea Arnold and overvalue the work of even problematic men, it’s a triple whammy that diminishes the individual woman, women in general, and the overall quality of culture.
Why “Florida Man” Really Isn’t All that Funny By Krista Stevens Highlight “Is Florida Man a hero, a villain or a victim? And is it still okay to laugh along?” (No, it’s not.)
Shelved: Jimi Hendrix’s Black Gold Suite By Tom Maxwell Feature The genius guitarist’s autobiographical, multi-song fantasy album sat in his drummer’s apartment for twenty years. Now in the care of the Hendrix estate, will it ever see the light of day?
The Big Sick By Soraya Roberts Feature Vomit culture keeps repeating on us because who doesn’t enjoy a good puke.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors By Katy Kelleher Feature Mirrors are sparkly and shiny and hypnotic. They’ve fascinated us for thousands of years. And they might show us a lot more about our society’s misplaced priorities than we care to see.
Remembering João Gilberto By Tom Maxwell Feature Eccentricity was inseperable from this musical innovator’s artistic vision.
How To Embrace Professional Decline By Carolyn Wells Highlight As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents By Michael Washburn Feature In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
Out of Toon By Soraya Roberts Feature Political cartoons don’t make a huge chunk of change, but they do change the culture. If only that were as valuable to the media as money.
Exploring The Paris Underneath Paris By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Drawn to the culture of urban exploration, the author crawls through narrow tunnels under Paris so we don’t have to.
