Cake and candles
Flaming Hydra is ONE YEAR OLD today
Happy Birthday, Flaming Hydra
Deranged country / Dejected heart
Ben Ehrenreich has had about enough, and Jídé Salawu’s first love letter
Stand By for News
Letter to February
Turgid prose
Anna Merlan reflects on celebrity skin
What Was the Horny Profile?
Weird weather / Weary winter
Remember David Lynch with Trevor Alixopulos, and celebrate community with Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Some Sense of Hope
Keeping visible / Staying alive
Parker Molloy tells the truth, and so does Luke O’Neil
Asking and Telling
The End and After
Find the funds / Forget utopia
Colin McGowan follows the money; congestion pricing considered by Felipe De La Hoz
Swallow the Money
The Needs of the Many
Home in the ruins / Lost in the beat
Moh Telbani on his home in Gaza, and Brian Hioe reads Emily Witt
Club Lives
Returning to Gaza
Beyond Bollywood
Fahad Shah in conversation with Payal Kapadia on independent cinema in India
Payal Kapadia: Crafting cinema beyond borders
Shelves of shame
Leila Brillson considers monstrosity
Also Neil is dead to us
Delight meets disaster / Savoring conflict
Miles Klee returns to Los Angeles; a chat on the old internet with Yemisi Aribisala
I (Really) Love L.A.
The Nigerian Dining Table that Disappeared Into Thin Air
The Colonial Master Asks You to Thank Him
Jídé Salawu considers recent developments in the colonial project
The Colonial Master Asks You to Thank Him
Don’t worry / Be happy
Laurie Woolever’s slog to bliss, and Amy Chu calculates The Best Day of 2024
Having a Marvelous Time
Fugitive facts / Wealth of words
Tom Scocca tries to search, Nathan Schneider attempts to tabulate
The Dance of Ignorance
An accounting for words
Me, mogul / Wounded wings
Leila Brillson pulls a strong card from 2024, and Diana Moskovitz apprehends sheer magnetic beauty
Strength
Winged Victory
Free users / Hot people
Jennie Rose Halperin gets bored with online dating and Rax King loves Anora, a Favorite Thing from 2024
Dating the Machine
Big Mistakes
Seeing the unthinkable
Yonatan Raz Portugali on a clear-eyed podcast about the possibility of peace
To Create It
Low and slow / Frenzied and eternal
David Moore on Steve McQueen‘s ‘Bass’; a Wisconsin birthday treat with Amy Kurzweil
Steve McQueen’s Hudson Valley Elegy
A puff of danger / Familiar strangers
Social smoking with A.J. Daulerio; Julianne Escobedo Shepherd finds peace on YouTube
Surreality TV
Smoke Signals
Light in the dark / Things on more things
Josephine Riesman at the movies, and a holiday gift for David Roth
Having It All
Two Movies Meet the Moment
Disaster on the airwaves / Blood on the page
New fiction from Luke O’Neil; murder books should stain us, says Talia Lavin
Unclean Hands
What’s on
Watcher of the skies
Sam Thielman with a chilling Christmas tale
The Twelve Days of Dagon
Useful things / Useless things
Anna Merlan dons an apron; organizing the Brian Hioe way
Tidying Up
Cheap, Ingenious Baking Stuff That’s Nice to Have
Digging up legends
Author Alan Moore, in conversation with Zach Rabiroff
The Long Memory of Alan Moore, Part I
Solitude streaming / A cup of cheer
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on a shockingly fine television adaptation, and holiday faves from Trevor Alixopulos
When a Book Can Be a Movie
Unequal sympathies / Daily delights
Zito Madu has questions about the decline of civilization, and Jennie Rose Halperin makes space for pleasures
Luscious Things
Safe and Beautiful World
Fresh blood / Baked guava
Miles Klee on rough justice, and Laurie Woolever makes one perfect treat
Revenge Revisited
Cookies Are Healing
Northern delights / No great loss
Good secrets shared by k.e. harloe, and Joe MacLeod’s little talk with Google
I Lost My Google Timeline and That’s OK
Hidden Gems of Upstate New York
Some kind of wonderful / Punk made plain
Visit the land of Oz with Sam Thielman, and listen to Ekko Astral with Parker Molloy
The Power All Along
Just Good Writing
Friendly conversation / Dictatorial silence
A favorite shared by Carrie Frye, and Brian Hioe on the Hong Kong 47
Women Talking
The Iron House
Avoid big labels / Mistrust France
Mark Yarm talks with Tsunami, and Jídé Salawu on new chums Macron and Tinubu
The Last Kick of a Dying Horse
A New Wave
Dread disease / Crime concerns
Yemisi Aribisala solves an old mystery; Tom Scocca on the dangers of living in New York City
Rushing Right Past It
Killers on the Loose
Immeasurable middle
Ian Williams on the right way to live
Hard, But Worth It
Open and shut
David Moore on the world of tomorrow, pov 2005
Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future
Get your wings
Revisiting a holiday classic with John Saward
Pretty Wonderful
Seeking loveliness / Going numb
Amy Chu chasing beauty, and new fiction from Colin McGowan
Iberia
That lucky feeling / Pick a pope
Rax King goes through the wringer; Osita Nwanevu on 'Conclave'
The Standard of Care
House of Cardinals
Finding Each Other in Asheville
Days of reckoning and gratitude, by Carrie Frye