Henry Rollins

No matter how miraculous a reflection may seem, it is always a harbinger of death. By Meghan O’Gieblyn.

Two authors pursue silence in nets of words.

Getting lost in the text-cities of Joyce, Döblin, and Dos Passos. By Tyler Malone.

A Heartbreaking letter written by a dying young woman is going viral after she passed away last week.

The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque. By Daniel Penny.

Armand Dijcks, Ray Collins, André Heuvelman, Jeroen van Vliet

"The point of building McMurdo was to get Americans to the South Pole, part of an unpublicized Antarctic base race with the Soviet Union." By Maciej Cegłowski.

Neither people nor plants fit into easy categories in the post-colonial era. By Anjali Vaidya.

On a nearly moonless night in late May, as I stumbled down a wide, smooth path near a large campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it suddenly occurred to me that I can’t see in the dark anymore... By Ellie Shechet.

Whichever (if any) start date is chosen, plastiglomerate—a substance that is neither industrially manufactured nor geologically created—seems a fraught but nonetheless incontrovertible marker of the anthropogenic impact on the world; it is evidence of human presence written directly into the rock. By Kirsty Robertson. (Dec. 2016)

As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg’s that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought. By Chris Ware.

“An unprecedented opportunity in the history of working class literature.” By Megan Walsh. (May 1, 2017)

A little review of travel literature. By Bernd Brunner.

The power and danger of women who take up space. By Carmen Maria Machado.

A helpful word can be a salve, but it's not always what we need. Parker Palmer on the power of quiet, unobtrusive presence to heal in troubled times.

Legendary New York City newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin died on Sunday at the age of 88. This profile originally appeared in the November, 1987 issue of GQ and appears here with permission from the author. By Ambrose Clancy.

A short trip to an ancient village was the catalyst for a profound shift in Picasso’s work – but it is often overlooked. Alastair Sooke finds out more.

Dr. Bones makes the case why no election will drive him from the shores of this continent…

The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.