Dave McKean and Zach Rabiroff on the gathering storm in AI, art, and ethics

Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff

October 18, 2025 The four of us stumbled out across the sand in the dark toward where the tongue of the water lapped at the high tide line and stood silently for some time listening to the collected ...

Until The Lancet published the link to a new paper on social media a few weeks ago (“Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus ...

Little-known history revealed by Michael Kupperman; a Nobel-winning biologist had the answer in 1969, says Maria Bustillos

In addition to being an exquisite prose stylist, a crack backgammon player, very handsome and funny, and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering advances in organ transplantation, the British biologist P....

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Sam Thielman and his son saw SPIDER-MAN

The other week, my partner brought back a bag of crunchy squid snacks from Japan, a gift from a colleague who had recently traveled to Tokyo. It was good enough that we looked it up after we were done...

The other week, my partner brought back a bag of crunchy squid snacks from Japan, a gift from a colleague who had recently traveled to Tokyo. It was good enough that we looked it up after we were done...

One day in springtime John couldn’t stop talking and the blue of the sky seemed as audible to him as the peal of a bell, and as he walked the long Elysian fields of campus he began to laugh, at the th...

I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...

“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ...

Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña

Tod Seelie relives the history of Dead Moon; Joe MacLeod’s cinema shock

The greatest love story in Rock ’n’ Roll came from Portland, Oregon.  The one and only time I saw Dead Moon perform in 2004, I was already a superfan, on the threshold of what would be a long career ...

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The greatest love story in Rock ’n’ Roll came from Portland, Oregon.  The one and only time I saw Dead Moon perform in 2004, I was already a superfan, on the threshold of what would be a long career ...

Catching up with Canadian pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus

Kent Osborne lives in Vermont. Jack Pendarvis lives in Mississippi. The two old friends, each sleep-deprived and noticeably loopy from traveling all day, met up at a hotel bar in Burbank, California, ...

3 p.m. April 2 Adults hide many things about adulthood. Like, for instance, the fact of colonoscopies. This is the dreaded test adults over 45 must endure in order to make sure we haven’t got colon ca...

Canadian pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus raises the alarm, with Nathan Munn

1. I was 19 years old and transcribing tapes as a part-time job in college. I was desperate to stop transcribing tapes; a new client had recently given us 40 hours of sessions with her psychic, which ...

Tal Lavin dreams of the frozen North, and Trevor Alixopulos goes for a swim

Tal Lavin dreams of the frozen North, and Trevor Alixopulos goes for a swim

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This whale is watching you and judging you for your incursion into his kingdom. His judgement is ruthless but resolves in your favor. You are cleansed.