poetry How would Emily Dickinson fare with online dating? Rusty Blazenhoff

books "Where do they go?" is an accessible and tender children's book about death Elías Villoro

san francisco Beat poet and City Lights Books founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101 Janelle Hessig

COVID-19 Marianne Faithfull's upcoming "She Walks in Beauty" Gareth Branwyn

AI Google AI helps you write a poem in the style of famous poets of the past Clive Thompson

manga Yoshiharu Tsuge: the first manga artist who used his personal life as story material Mark Frauenfelder

interviews Talking Comics with Ignatz Award-Winning Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver Jeffery Klaehn

Spoken Word with Electronics My Unfinished Sound Project with David Berman (Hear: "Governors on Sominex", "The Moon", and "My Life at Home During Banking Hours") Ethan Persoff

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

History Nitrous, weed, opium and peach-pits: the intoxicants of 18th C England Cory Doctorow

How South African tabloids inspired my novel Charlie Human

The surprising history of hippy crack Linda Rodriguez

Remembering Robin Williams, cinema's Rorschach test K.M. McFarland

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

Games At 40 Years Old, Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters Ethan Gilsdorf

politics EuroMaidan: a Facebook revolution in the streets of Kiev Daniel Kovzhun

promoted John Cusack in hacker-land Xeni Jardin

surrealism Nerval's Lobster: Is walking a crustacean any more ridiculous than a dog? Mark Dery