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Pick up a banjo, or maybe a javelin.

There are few places I can think of more melancholy than the streets of my hometown late at night.

A reading list on friction, an interview about travel writing, and the week’s Top 5.

Finding community in sandlot ball (and our Top 5).

A stranger-than-fiction true crime story, and our latest recommended reads.

Jenny Odell on seeing, deep listening, and other ways to strengthen how we observe the life around us.

“Plenty of people are looking for stilton, and some have more than a snack on their mind.”

I know the obstacles are out there, and that there will always be a moment where creativity meets friction and grinds to a halt.

An excerpt from the graphic memoir “Opioids & Organs,” the latest from The Atavist, and our Top 5.

“Aaron somehow hailed a taxi. My brother was staining the pavement crimson, but this cab driver, this stranger, stopped. He helped Aaron carry my brother to the cab’s back seat. He surely lost money later that night while toweling blood from cushion crevices.” Did you know that more than one-third of web pages that existed […]