“Go Get ’Em” — Illustrated by Yana Mihaylova My boyfriend’s family is supposed to visit and we have to prepare and try to match their lavish dinners and four-course crystal-and-china extravaganzas. They are going…
Here are the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. — The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. Named in honor of Bram Stoker (Dracula) and awarded annually since 1988, t…
Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different — When the first massively popular reality TV shows hit the air in the early 2000s, I remember thinking in my naïveté: Surely this is just a passing fad. I was entering my teens and, like so many clo…
Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank) — The first character I ever became obsessed with was Captain Hook. I couldn’t have been more than three or four, though I was already weird; I saw the 1953 Disney version of Peter Pan and im
On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate — Mom said the folks who’d be at the family reunion were Randy’s people, so I’d probably never met them but that was no reason not to try to talk. It’s true I often stayed quiet. If I raised my voice…
“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism — Roughly a decade ago, shortly after I moved from Seattle to a nearby suburb, I slid into a bipolar mixed episode for a period of a month or so before it descended into straight depression. During m…
At Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries — During the seventh annual event, hundreds of artists proved that art has never been confined to “white cube” galleries.
Sheila Liming: “The End of Books” — A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult — Other than the names. The names are difficult.
Lost and Found: On Eileen Myles’s “Bird Watching” — In 2023, when the lost Beatles song “Now and Then” was released, my aunt Ruth contacted every relative, friend, and acquaintance to announce the very exciting news of The Fab Four’…
How Not to Waste Your Life — “Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the p…
NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure — We've got time into 2027 before we're getting nervous."