- Have to start with plugging my own article, of course: “Mother Nature Snows Best”
- “But I’m not trying to become wealthy,” Franco told me after a moment. “I’m trying to have a nice life.” HOW A BELIEF IN AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS MAKING AMERICA LESS EXCEPTIONAL by Eric Lyman
- “Superhero Movies Will Have to Work Harder After Black Panther”
- “What if everyone who was going to find a happy relationship on a dating app already did? Maybe everyone who’s on Tinder now are like the last people at the party trying to go home with someone.” “The Rise of Dating App Fatigue”
- “They’ve produced a metastasizing cancer by quickening gentrification, eroding the complex fabric of neighborhoods to the status of mere way stations, and advancing a homogenizing tide of bleach wood and incandescent bulbs…” “The Tragedy of the Commons”
- “FEAR IS GOOD QUALITY CONTROL.” COLSON WHITEHEAD ON THE WRITER’S LIFE, by Emily Temple
- Firsthand account of gentrification (from five years ago!) + more to chew on about LA politics “Hollywood’s Urban Cleansing”
- Consent, the safety of home, and more in “No Safe Place” on ¡Radio Ambulante!
- “How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world,” or, “Welcome to Airspace”
- true beauty: “Joaquin Phoenix,” by Will Ferrell
- “If insect meal becomes a substitute for even a portion of feed demand then we have something powerful…” “The Bug-Filled Future of Feed”
- One of a million essays I’ve read about A Wrinkle in Time
- Veterans read Homer to readjust to home life
- One of Stephen Hawking’s last essays </3 “The NHS saved me. As a scientist, I must help to save it”
- “In deeming any series as feminist — especially earlier in its run — we are limiting the show’s ability to let its female characters be unburdened by respectability politics.”
- the problems with Spotify + the future of the music (muzak) industry in “The Problem with Muzak”
- “The Forgotten Art of the Squat”
- “Listening to “Africa” playing in an empty mall” is a memory of “someplace where you’ve taken the chance of being lonely in public, instead of retreating and clicking around alone.”
- “How the Cleveland Clinic” — one of the most premium healthcare research and care-providing institutions in the country — “grows healthier while its neighbors stay sick.”
- “When the Yogurt Took Over” by John Scalzi: “Finally, our rulers will have culture,” “Our society has curdled,” “Our government is now the cream of the crop,” and so on.
- A dissection of popular culture + commentary from Adorno — “Against popular culture”
- Quite unfortunate statistics — “When women win literary awards for fiction it’s usually for writing from a male perspective and/or about men.”
- Analyzing ‘Rick and Morty’ fans’ identification with noted piece of shit, Rick “‘Rick and Morty’ and The Rise of The ‘I’m a Piece of Shit’ Defense”
- Send this to all of your friends immediately: “Roxane Gay Lists 13 Rules for Female Friendships”
- “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing
- Try to read this without smiling: impossible! “The Blackhawks needed an emergency goalie, and a local accountant saved the day” by Hector Diaz
- Ida Tarbell: “The Woman Who Took on the Tycoon.”
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