Swedish sparkles / A hopeless position
Diana Moskovitz takes a break in Stockholm; Amy Chu at the Boston Palestine Film Festival
A Night at the ABBA Museum
Film Review: No Other Land
Be a pal
It doesn’t really matter what you call it, says k.e. harloe
What Friends Are For
Above the fray
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd at a billionaire’s election watch party
Like Common People
Longtime listener / Believe in books
John Saward on the tribe of Mike Francesca, and Maria Bustillos on saving libraries
The Sage of Long Island
Readers: Raise Hell
Laughable leadership / Wretched results
Jídé Salawu on Nigerian tomfoolery, and a poem on this day by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
A Jokeland Called Nigeria
The Day Chaos Won Again
The darkest hour / Braced for the future
Laurie Woolever on worsening situations; plan to plan with Felipe De La Hoz
Notes On Planning
Corroded Chains
Pull the lever / Feel the change
Hydras on the ballots; dread and loveliness with Luke O’Neil
What Else to Vote For
Not Coming Back
Protest, vote
Jonathan M. Katz and Maria Bustillos on the Tuesday of our discontent
Yakkin’ About The Election
Brawl and response / Really racist
Tommy Craggs on ultra-violence in the NBA; Arwa Mahdawi reviews ‘The Message’
Shooting the Messengers
Two Decades of Pacification in the NBA
The Flytrap Opens Up
Corrupted image / Journalistic integrity
David Roth’s identity issues; Parker Molloy on the Bezos fracas
Jeff Bezos Thinks Washington Post Readers Are Idiots
I Am Not Sam Bankman-Fried
Happier returns
Self care for next Tuesday, from Gabriel Snyder
Election Night Step 1: Turn Off the TV
Bullheaded memory
Into the maze with Zito Madu
Enter the Minotaur
Money talks / Yankees prevail
Tom Scocca considers Bezos’s cowardice; John Saward on the agony of baseball
Jeff Bezos Endorses Donald Trump
In Play, Run(s)
Spooky civic spirit
Ooh, scary!
Bare-Bones Democracy
Treasure squandered / Treasures preserved
Brian Hioe covers a march in Taipei, plus some Hydras visit the Internet Archive
Keeping Election Receipts at the Internet Archive
The Speed of War
Subtle signals / Blaring warnings
Ana Marie Cox is lying down and Trevor Alixopulos is sleuthing
All Curled Up
Losing the terrain / Breaking into comics
Carrie Frye with Asheville updates, and Denny O'Neil’s last-ever interview, with Josephine Riesman
Maps to Follow
Flight delayed
Shelf portrait
An L.A. afternoon with Maria Bustillos
Sam: Johnson’s Book Shop on Venice Boulevard
Link rot cured
An uplifting message from The Editors
Buy The Awl Book
Hard bargains / Restricted browsing
Jídé Salawu buys some things, and so does Shirley Wang
Shopping and Its Discontents
Bonded by minibus
Different ways to get married, by Yemisi Aribisala
Danfo Nuptials
Running away
Luke O’Neil reckons with wildness and decay
Out of our misery
Up from the depths / Wash like a man
Allegories with Jennie Rose Halperin, and new fiction from Miles Klee
Animal Control
Jonah and Erica and the Whale
AI grave robbers / Office agony aunt
Talia Lavin on real forever loss, and Rax King on Ask a Manager
Checking in With the Boss
Steal Back the Ghost From the Machine
Embittered sweets / Rebuilding Babel
Delectably complex pie from Emily Flake, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on AI translation
New Frontiers in Language Technology
Rustic retreat / Soft, savory treat
Hamilton Nolan, survivalist; Laurie Woolever, also surviving (on party food)
If I Was in the Woods
Party All the Time Sandwiches
Complete catastrophe
Carrie Frye, reporting from Asheville
The Root Bar After the Flood
Moved to mortification
Images of self-harm, considered by Sam Thielman
The Fires of Creation
Float your boat / Stretch your prose
Anna Merlan on a funerary hack for dating apps; Colin McGowan reads Robert Coover
The Viking Funeral Question
A Glimpse of Robert Coover
Protective Papers
Parker Molloy on enduring the coming month
When Attack Ads Come for You
Empty battery / Out of shape
At the beach in New York with David Moore; doubts considered with Amy Chu
The Guns at Fort Tilden
The ship goes adrift
Ben Ehrenreich on the news
Something Like the Weather
A certain age / Uncertain business
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on defiance, and Felipe De La Hoz, also on defiance
Impregnable
Teaching on the Ramparts
Leaving home / Making money
Brian Hioe's change of scene; and for Maria Bustillos, hindsight is 2020
Taipei Apartment Hunt
Ben Smith, Pragmatist
All-night movies / Unlimited parking
Zito Madu's not sleepy; Miles Klee dreams of malls
The Mall Pulls You In
Insomnia Film Festival
Refuse mortality / Recall yesterday
Ceremonial practices of Myriam Gurba, and Trevor Alixopulos remembers
How I Celebrate Day of the Dead
Ruled by chance / Social insects
Watermelons, randomness, Arwa Mahdawi; Joe MacLeod looks out the window