Metal Mouths
Eighty percent of of North American teenagers are currently in an orthodontist’s care. Why is America obsessed with perfect teeth?
Come Hear My Song
A night at the San Joaquin Valley’s last historic honky-tonk.
What Is Code?
Paul Ford and Bloomberg Businessweek collaborate on a 38,000-word essay meant to answer the big and small questions of what it means to be a coder: how programming works, why it matters, and whether you should start learning yourself.
The Economics of a Small Theater Company
Inside a 78-seat Los Angeles theater, drama plays out over new union-mandated wage rules.
The Lost Man
An amateur sleuth’s obsession with a true-crime story that has captivated Australians since 1948.
Canada’s National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List
Guest reading list from Eva Holland: “This year’s awards were up for grabs among 326 nominees from 80 publications, spread across 43 categories. ‘Gold’ and ‘silver’ winners get awards, and the balance of the nominees receive honorable mentions. That spawns the occasional joke about how in Canadian magazines, everyone gets a medal for participation, but—go ahead, call me biased (I was a nominee/honorable mention in the ‘society’ category, for ‘The Forgotten Internment’)—I like the way our format lets us celebrate many different sorts of work, not just the ‘biggest,’ most ambitious features.”
The Art and Business of Book Covers
Here are pieces I’ve enjoyed, new and old, about the art and business of book cover design.
Hotel Melancholia
A meditation on the particular sadness of faceless hotel rooms.
Alanis In Chains
Before Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette was a teenage pop star. So how did she transform into the “patron saint of mainstream grrrl power”?
The Box and the Basement
Nathan Rabin writes about being laid off from a high-profile media job and making the difficult decision to sell his home and move into his in-laws’ basement with his wife and son.
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