Dead can dance / Lyrics live
Tod Seelie’s exquisite photos of New Orleans, and a poem from the olden time by Harry Siegel
Día de los Muertos in New Orleans
One Half-Life Later
Tinseltown treat / Puzzle pro
Diana Moskovitz at the Chappell Roan show, and Carrie Frye talks game design with Dan Kois
Game theories
Pink Pony World
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Ace Goes to Hollywood: Episode 12
Hill bully elegy
Parker Molloy talks media with Jael Holzman of Ekko Astral; a photo album from Flaming Hydra’s first-ever party
D.C. Journalist’s Nightmare Song
A plague on art / The tasteless torus
The passion of John Saward, and Hamilton Nolan’s views on an autumn treat
Caravaggio, Sam Altman, and Me
Apple Cider Donuts = BS
HYDRANYM No. 23
Grave occasion / Wheel time
Anna Merlan walks among the shades, and so does Luke O’Neil; Tod Seelie photographs Bike Kill mayhem
Cemetery Gates
How it is done
Riders on the Storm
Rolling blackout
Jídé Salawu on politics and power (outages)
Generators for the Powerless
Boring tattoos / Spooky music
Sam Thielman on Graham Platner, and a harrowing holiday surprise for Trevor Alixopulos
Boys’ Lives
Ghostly Melodies
Yellow brick road / The long march
Laurie Woolever visits the Emerald City, Carrie Frye reflects on last week’s protests, and Wicker Man Week comes to a close
No Space Like Dome
No Kings: One Week After
Let locals lie / Build the beat
A holiday in the land of ‘The Wicker Man’ with Kim Kelly, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on Afrobeat muse Sandra Izsadore
My Summerisle Samhain
Godmothering Afrobeat
Blindered faith / Giddy vision
Miles Klee takes on ‘The Wicker Man’; Jennie Rose Halperin and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd return to ‘Party Girl’
The Presumption of Innocence
Yakkin’ About ‘Party Girl’
Young and restless / Odds and ends
Time travel with Maria Bustillos; Amy Chu’s got collectibles
‘The Wicker Man’ Was About 1973
Top Tchochkes
Hear the music / Feel the burn
Wicker Man Week opens with Tal Lavin and Annalee Newitz, jointly and severally
‘The Wicker Man’: The Musical
An Oppositional Reading of ‘The Wicker Man’
Yakkin’ About ‘The Wicker Man’
Nice day outside / Evil stars
Reports from No Kings (var.), and Annalee Newitz on the devolution of online ratings
Rise of the Review Bomb
Flaming Hydras at the Demo
Growing Older on the Way to Making a New World
Celluloid recovery / Seasoned subversive
Rax King reviews 'The Smashing Machine'; reflections of a maturing activist, by Brian Hioe
Repairing ‘The Smashing Machine’
Hardened borders
Zach Rabiroff talks with Stephanie Canizales about undocumented children and U.S. citizenship
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
HYDRANYM No. 21
Abduction afloat / Day of remembrance
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún talks with released Sumud Flotilla captive Zukiswa Wanner; Emily Flake’s notes on a new holiday
A Flotilla Captive, Released
Ways to Observe Charlie Kirk Day
Deep stacks
Jídé Salawu on the recent crowdfunding for the national library of Nigeria
How to Crowdfund a National Library Like a Queen
Opportunistic infection
Jennie Rose Halperin on the career twists and turns of Instagram influencer Jessica Reed Kraus
Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All
What’s the poop? / Where’s the dough?
Tom Scocca learns new words; Ace and Jack on the gambling type atmosphere of Hollywood
Roots of Understanding
Ace Goes to Hollywood: Episode 11
Base meddling / Machine learning
S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing
Purity Tests
PODCAST! How to Fix AI, with Paul Ford
Better banknotes
Yemisi Aribisala reimagines money
The Naira Redrawn
Struggle cinema
David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'
Winning Isn’t Everything
Sleeping and waking
Myriam Gurba and author Wendy C. Ortiz on dreams, gender violence, true crime, and a hex
The Full Scope of Consciousness
Hardboiled heroes / Chef’s surprise
Miles Klee on the pleasures of noir, and new fiction from Sam Thielman
Being a Detective Is a Job
Some Choices
Northern front
Canada’s punk rock politician/activist, Charlie Angus, talks with Nathan Munn
Canada’s Charlie Angus Defends Democracy
Puny Persuasion
Tom Scocca and Maria Bustillos Yakkin’ about Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein Does Politics the Wrong Way
Angry letters
The politics of spelling, with Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
I Say Owambe and You Say Owa N’be
Pesky journalists / Pleasant insects
‘All the President’s Men’ revisited by Diana Moskovitz; Trevor Alixopulos considers L.A.’s friendly green flying objects
Robert Redford, Reporter
Praise for the Fig Eater
Keep caring / Caretaking
Brian Hioe on bubble tea and ‘hitting someone else's head with yours’; fine new fiction from Luke O’Neil
Gone running
In Defense of Self-Righteousness
Budding branch
The Internet Archive Europe opens its new headquarters in Amsterdam, and Maria Bustillos chats with Brewster Kahle
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
Puppet masters / Tentatively Teutonic
Ben Ehrenreich’s transcript of a future Congressional hearing, and language class with Anna Merlan