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
Look What Does Happen
A Nest in My Home
Casual pals / Strict borders
Kola Tubosun visits London, and Carrie Frye on the realest of friends
Passing Through the Empire
Pretty Good Friends
The voice of authority
Dystopic comforts from Luke O'Neil
Unforeseen Difficulties
Hyperlinked humanity / The rubble of home
Nerding out with David Moore; a young woman's life in Gaza, by Moh Telbani
One Woman in Gaza
It Was Delicious
Some are reading
Yemisi Aribisala reflects on the dangers of the reading life
Books and Ruined Women
Life persists
Ana Marie Cox on survival
To Beat the Devil
Touch the heavens / Face the lens
Amy Chu holds pieces of clouds; evolving self-imagery from Jennie Rose Halperin
My Photo
American hero
Josephine Riesman on 9/11 and Uncle Sam
Unspeakable feed
Some things Sam Thielman saw on the internet
Sensitive Content
Self, publishing / Turing texts
Laurie Woolever on the jitters; Scocca and Bustillos refuse styrofoam
Giving Blood
Yakkin’ About AI
Tiny cuts / Final fantasy
Sharp remarks from Diana Moskovitz, and Sam Thielman exits, pursued by a beast
Knife Skills
Public access internet / Distant Belle
Freenets at the library with jj skolnik, and John Saward visits his old room
Your Old Room
Community Based Network
Special delivery / Animal urges
A.J. Daulerio on dot-com indulgence; Brian Hioe contemplates desire
Kozmo-politan
The Chinchilla Expert
Audience capture
Tom Scocca on tomscocca.com, and READERS’ CHOICE poll results
The You dot Com for Me dot Com
READERS’ CHOICE Poll Results!
Sign the guestbook
Arwa Mahdawi on the kinder gentler internet
When the Internet Was a Friendly Neighborhood
Elf friends / Transit strangers
Rax King waxes fantastical and Trevor Alixopulos stands clear of the closing doors.