graphic novel "Big Jim and the White Boy" is a fascinating re-telling of Huck Finn Thom Dunn

fantasy A free short story about Irish history to read while you're quarantined over St. Patrick's Day Thom Dunn

books On the strengths of fiction done as near-history Guy Gavriel Kay

graphic novels An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks Mark Frauenfelder

books Graphic novel "Revolution By Fire" explores New York's Afro-Irish uprising of 1741 Thom Dunn

cats Online museum dedicated to Internet-famous cats Popkin

podcasts Listen to this eerily immersive audio tour of a real-life Bates Motel Thom Dunn

Comic Books Explore Batman's 85-year legacy in the lavish "DC: Batman Deluxe Edition" Gareth Branwyn

censorship "Titicut Follies" (1967) is a once-banned documentary about the horrific treatment of prisoners at Bridgewater State Hospital Jennifer Sandlin

History "Washington's Gay General" is a fabulous look at the queerness of America's founding Thom Dunn

non-newtonian ChatGPT writes a Juice Newton song about Huey and Issac sharing a fig newton Jason Weisberger

architecture Mark the 130th anniversary of the Chicago World's Fair by reading "The Devil in the White City" this summer Jennifer Sandlin

HDSF Choose your vacation: Pleasure Planet, Paradise Planet, or Hell Planet Jesse Sheidlower

florida The College Board denounces Florida's Department of Education Jason Weisberger

HDSF What is Thionite? Science fiction's narcotic good stuff Jesse Sheidlower

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Rigellian: the science-fictional inhabitants of a bright blue star Jesse Sheidlower

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Otherspace: a science-fictional place for when no other space will do Jesse Sheidlower

HDSF Meet the Space Bum, ambiguous stock character of generations of science fiction Jesse Sheidlower

HDSF Cereans live on Ceres (in the future) Jesse Sheidlower

HDSF A conapt is a bad place to live—unless you're the protagonist of a science fiction story Jesse Sheidlower