Ascending and descending
In the lobby with Zito Madu
The Elevators
Thought control
Josephine Riesman on Pink Floyd and surrender
Mother, Should I Build a Wall?
Scraps of love / Fists of the future
Luke O’Neil sings, and Harry Siegel unearths a troubling prophecy
Believing you will receive
House of horrors / Bar flies
Ben Ehrenreich watches the neighbors; Trevor Alixopulos might be someone's type
Yardwork
Sleepy time
And so to bed, with Carrie Frye
A poem
Durable media / Hearty breakfast
Maria Bustillos almost pulls a Hackman, and Laurie Woolever’s cry for help in egg form
My Secret Breakfast
Recapture the Castle
War of words / Words of war
Miles Klee on tech lord hypotheses, and a historic debate recounted by Hamilton Nolan
Defusing the Slur Bomb
A Next Evil Man
Censor-y overload
Art Spiegelman’s prescient conversation with Josephine Riesman
There’s Nothing Like Banning a Book!
Stable mates
Yemisi Aribisala on the difficult ploughing of words
From the Horse’s Mouth
Beyond repair
Joe MacLeod thinks about pain
Uneasy With the Crown
Artistic authority / Lifeless language
Emily and Miriam's Kennedy Center reverie, and pleasantries from Brian Hioe
Programming at the Kennedy Center, Revised
What I Really Mean
Beat the bosses
John Saward on fighting the power
Digging Out of Trouble
Replay reviewed / Predator praying
Tom Scocca watches the big game; Sam Thielman ponders eternal punishment
Football Breaks Faith
The Great Man at Rest
Federal dread / Proper pronouns
Sally Forth’s weird week at work; Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún’s rough translations
The Time of the Preacher
The Gendered Madness of Language
Goodness snakes
Zito Madu is scared of snakes
Shedding the Skin
Obsessive sleuthing
Arwa Mahdawi searches for an ending
How to Solve a Murder: A Five-Part Guide
Money dog / Ruddy schnoz
A.J Daulerio checks his spam, and Amy Kurzweil follows somebody else's nose
Self-Soothing Through the Apocalypse Via My Spam Account
Burrow into the festivities
Joe MacLeod reflects on the duration of winter
Another Groundhog Day
Write yourself into being
Author Alan Moore, in further conversation with Zach Rabiroff
The Long Memory of Alan Moore, Part II
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