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
Root Ball Thanksgiving
Fraught feast / Foul-weather friends
Amy Kurzweil's dread repast, and respiration strategies from Parker Molloy
Radical Breathing
Platform shoos
The world axes the X, by Fahad Shah
Retweet in Retreat
Majority tyranny / Ancient grease
Nathan Schneider considers οἱ πολλοί, and Miles Klee on an unhappy meal
Democracy Against Democracy
Twenty-One Reactions to Seeing Those Assholes Eating McDonald’s on a Private Jet
Penis in the sky
Talia Lavin considers the cave
I Am Ready to Move to A Cave to Explore the Orphic Mysteries
Getting ahead / Getting away
Arwa Mahdawi on ambition, and Amy Chu's Candace Chen gets in a pickle
How To Get Ahead
Gusts of meaning
Luke O’Neil on losing your balance in a storm
By the intensity with which something is being said
Furry interloper / Edible impostors
Anna Merlan’s nomadic roommate, and a public service matrix from Trevor Alixopulos
Be Our Guest
Reading fundamentalist
Maria Bustillos on the defense of Western Civ
Closing Time
Auto-tune autocrat
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún explains the coming political meme
T-Pain is Coming
Tidings of the season
A sestina from Sam Thielman
Late Fall
Final insult
Jennie Rose Halperin traces the poisonous roots of celebrity culture