Why Bugs Deserve Our Respect By Jessica Gross Feature Fruit flies helped us win six Nobel prizes in medicine. Architects have been inspired by termite hills. Ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains why bugs are so essential to the world we live in.
Finding Comfort in Small Spaces By Jessica Gross Feature Jessica Gross considers her preference for certain types of confinement.
Interview: Simon Rich on Guilt, Humor Writing, and Being the Worst Person Ever By Longreads Feature “I’m certainly as revolting and privileged and narcissistic as any of the hipsters described in my book, if not more so. I mean, there’s nobody worse than me.”
Interview: Caitlin Moran on the Working Class, Masturbation, and Writing a Novel By Longreads Feature “I’m very much a bitch-gotta-pay-rent girl. I worked my way up from the ghetto and I think women should be paid for their great ideas.”
