I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my fa ...

Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about ...

Hey, folks. I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be away from the site for a couple of weeks for a family vacat ...

In this video, a writer named Hannah shares an experiment her Intro to Psychology professor ran on her class. Here’s a tra ...

I love this gorgeous woodblock print from Hasui Kawase, View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji. Hasui was a significant ...

The Criterion Collection is releasing a new boxset of Wes Anderson films, The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five ...

Whoa, look at the interior of this new Japanese restaurant in NYC called Shirokuro — all of the surfaces (floors, chairs, walls, counters, etc.) are painted to look like a 2-dimensional drawing. From ...

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estimate, though I keep this from my children. This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add ...