Strength in Numbers
Latest Stories
The Nigerian Dining Table that Disappeared Into Thin Air
by Yemisi Aribisala
The Colonial Master Asks You to Thank Him
by Jídé Salawu
Having a Marvelous Time
by Laurie Woolever
Toward a Quantitative Assessment Into the Best Day of 2024
by Amy Chu
The Dance of Ignorance
by Tom Scocca
An accounting for words
by Nathan Schneider
Strength
by Leila Brillson
Recent Issues
Delight meets disaster / Savoring conflict
Miles Klee returns to Los Angeles; a chat on the old internet with Yemisi Aribisala
The Colonial Master Asks You to Thank Him
Jídé Salawu considers recent developments in the colonial project
Don’t worry / Be happy
Laurie Woolever’s slog to bliss, and Amy Chu calculates The Best Day of 2024
Fugitive facts / Wealth of words
Tom Scocca tries to search, Nathan Schneider attempts to tabulate
Me, mogul / Wounded wings
Leila Brillson pulls a strong card from 2024, and Diana Moskovitz apprehends sheer magnetic beauty
Free users / Hot people
Jennie Rose Halperin gets bored with online dating and Rax King loves Anora, a Favorite Thing from 2024
Seeing the unthinkable
Yonatan Raz Portugali on a clear-eyed podcast about the possibility of peace
Low and slow / Frenzied and eternal
David Moore on Steve McQueen‘s ‘Bass’; a Wisconsin birthday treat with Amy Kurzweil
A puff of danger / Familiar strangers
Social smoking with A.J. Daulerio; Julianne Escobedo Shepherd finds peace on YouTube
Light in the dark / Things on more things
Josephine Riesman at the movies, and a holiday gift for David Roth