How to read
Jennie Rose Halperin on transcending paranoia
Against Paranoid Reading
Waste cases / Nice guys
Reflections on futility with Brian Hioe, and Hollywood memories with Kent Osborne and Jack Pendarvis
Kent Goes to Chelmsford: Episode 3
Childish Things
Gold tones / Green leaves
Zito Madu on joy and Alysa Liu; a literary trip to African forests with Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
African Forests Transformed
Exalted Victors
Bad romance / Patience rewarded
Anna Merlan on 'Wuthering Heights'; waiting in line with Trevor Alixopulos
Serenity Mark-Down
Eyre Apparent
An English class
A David Foster Wallace classic remembered by Rax King
On Rereading “Big Red Son”
Talking milk / Drinking Coke
Myriam Gurba goes where the wild things are; the latest fiction from Sam Thielman
Only Child
Milking Milk: An Interview with Megan Milks
Making it stay / Letting it go
J.D. Connor on L.A. in film, and a new chapter of TEETH BEACH by S.I. Rosenbaum
TEETH BEACH: From Memory
Certified Rotten
Dealing with it
New stories from Luke O’Neil
The situation with the bull
Beastly beatitudes
New fiction from Miles Klee
Saint Guinefort
What a man’s gotta do
Nathan Munn on the impulse to violence
Raging Bulls
Party down / Assigned seating
Tod Seelie on a cop crackdown against a New Orleans krewe; Jack Pendarvis has a drink with Kent Osborne
Kent Goes to Chelmsford: Episode 2
Bulls on Parade
Good look / Sad book
Felipe De La Hoz loves good clothes; Maria Bustillos on reading the original draft of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir
BOOK REVIEW: The (Real) Memoir of Virginia Giuffre
Fine and Dandy
Veterans, various
Joe MacLeod watched the football game
Halftime in America
Village people / Days of our lives
Jídé Salawu reflects on migration and African identities; Amy Chu does social science
Best and Worst Days of 2025
Nigeria and the Rural Imagination
Wisdom of the crowd / Star power
jj skolnik on underground organizing; Laurie Woolever talks with culinary superstars in Mexico City
Food and Love
Rock Solidarity
Dread and circuses
Parker Molloy, a fan of the Chicago Bears, suffers and rejoices
Taking What Comes
Once more with feeling
Zito Madu on a life of showmanship in sports
Mourinho Against the World
Bad Show / Good influencer
Osita Nwanevu on the future of broadcast news, and some memories of Schenectady from Joe MacLeod
Johnny Dee
CBS: Breaking News
Subtle body / Life story
Enlightenment on a Mexican beach with Jennie Rose Halperin; a thrilling biography by Emily Flake and guest Emily Menez
Lost Cat: A Life Cycle
I’m a Yoga Teacher Now
And now we are two
And now we are two
Celebrating Flaming Hydra’s second birthday
This guy’s in love with you
Tal Lavin watches some movies
What I Can’t Unsee
Recurring infection
Misha Angrist in conversation with Seth Mnookin, author of 'The Panic Virus'
Viral Rebound
Any way you want it
Origins and analysis of the pleasures of HEATED RIVALS, by Annalee Newitz
‘Heated Rivalry’ Gives Everyone Permission
Puppet show
Maria Bustillos looks back on the Republicans’ long love affair with Putin’s Russia
The Peacekeepers
Divine indifference / Artes reconditae
New fiction from Luke O’Neil, and Rax King with an exegesis of ‘Sex and The City’
Sex Tourist
What it has always looked like
Fighting the power / Riding high
Minneapolis activists talk with Myriam Gurba; Tod Seelie photographs a Cuban bike genius
Lessons from Minneapolis
Viva la bicicleta alta
Sudden decay / Chorus (repeat)
Cinema fantasy by Trevor Alixopulos; Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún writes from a faraway literary festival
Recurring Nightmare
Freaky Friday Realism
Reference works / Optical illusions
Anna Merlan returns to (1939) NYC, and Zach Rabiroff saw these clips on the internet
New York, Forever Lost and Found
Two Videos
Spellbound solitude
Carrie Frye with a sorceress’s lament; vote in the final HYDRANYM
Two Witch Poems
Head room / Showbiz duo
Jídé Salawu on AI in the classroom, and Jack Pendarvis returns with a new traveling companion
Truth or Consequences
Kent Goes to Chelmsford: Episode 1
Fortunate man / Despairing diversion
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
FAMOUS MEME Comics
Fate and ‘The Stringer’
The New Food Pyramid
Close quarters / Toxic triangle
Speculative fiction from Nathan Munn; service journalism from Emily Flake
Welcome Home
See no evil
Some advice from Ian Williams
Get Off Twitter
The Last HYDRANYM
Male men / Automatic aphorism
jj skolnik considers masculinity; Brian Hioe on the echoing truths in our lives
What Is Manhood?
My Catchphrase
That Was the Moby-Dick That Was
Manly meditation
Paternal musings (cinematic) by J.D. Connor
Taking It Lying Down
Murky red / Dull blue
The new Avatar movie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, dissected, respectively, by Miles Klee and Tommy Craggs
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s True Colors
New Goo Review
Movie madness
Josephine Riesman on the thrill of revenge
Inglourious Vengeance
Lust for life / Recessional
Carrie Frye on the romances of Moby-Dick; a farewell shanty from Joe MacLeod and friends