books This cool subscription service brings new curated books right to your door Thom Dunn

literature Cornell English Department votes to change name to "Department of Literatures In English" Thom Dunn

wales Llawgnychu! It's ok to Cymru to Welsh fairy porn Rob Beschizza

books In 2004, an author wrote a 233-page novel without using any verbs Ellsworth Toohey

writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed

Science Hear a Medievalist professor answer an array of interesting Medieval questions Popkin

Funny Funny satirical article about The Mountain Goats' forthcoming album coming with an academic syllabus Jennifer Sandlin

climate change K-Pop fans join the fight for climate justice Thom Dunn

storytelling Using Joseph Campbell's monomyth to write a porno Thom Dunn

"Dig Where Your Stand", Swedish rallying cry for workers, translated into English for the first time Elías Villoro

transgender Tarot expert, comic writer, and trans icon Rachel Pollack has passed away Thom Dunn

prophetic visions 100 years later, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land still resonates Jennifer Sandlin

books Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve" Elías Villoro

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

music "Why Lhasa de Sela Matters" is an intimate portrait of the creativity that resulted from the collision of a hopeful and hopeless romantic A.E. Gómez

worst-of lists Famous Brits pick their most-hated books Mark Frauenfelder

adventure Do you know these adventurer's terms: charisma, chutzpah, clean one's clock, and (my favorite) clobberin' time? Mark Frauenfelder

kickstarter Kickstart this cool new comic of North American folktales by Indigenous artists Thom Dunn

plagiarism "Tortured" phrases used to fool plagiarism detectors now infest scientific papers Rob Beschizza