Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
Today in Everything Is Very Bad: Google Maps is misleading women into going to pro-life centers. Let’s all go to Austin to see Ellsworth Kelly’s final work. What is life…
Jelani Cobb on The life and death of a Black Lives Matter activist (very actually important). Sometimes you just want to start your week with Nordic ruins and that’s ok…
Spend your weekend with some Polish illustration and ads from East Germany. I hope you’re all enjoying the Olympics, home to the darkest building on Earth. We need to stop…
The Berlin Wall has officially been gone as long as it was up, so let’s look at these pictures of people trying to escape East Germany. Honestly shocked it took…
Spend your week watching a century of British animation. RIP Nigel. A kingdom from dust. (read this!) Celebrating England’s Post Bus. As always Baldwin had the answer decades ago.
Spend your weekend watching some early 20th Century Japanese animation, you’ll be the better for it. Uncanny landscapes. Every day is a good day for North Korean photography. Life in…
Start your Thursday with the heaviest question: What does it mean to die? Elsewhere in the New Yorker: What giving up alcohol can do for you! Let’s all listen to…
Things have been so bad for so long, picturing a century of cities at war. Welcome to the world of drone racing. Let’s talk about airplane seatbelts. Let’s talk about…
What we REALLY need is a gold-plated laser in the San Andreas Fault. Congrats on having the most sex chromosomes, strange frog! It is always time to celebrate the Tonga…
Hunting for the lost ancient farms of North America. Everything is very bad: prosecutors are exposing the racism of IQ tests in the name of putting more people to death.…
Spend a bit of time exploring Fivethirtyeight’s Gerrymandering Project. Fare thee well, high school locker. Fare thee well, cheese-rolling competition. What is life but a Victorian hair shrine? Mosquitoes are learning every…