literature Cornell English Department votes to change name to "Department of Literatures In English" Thom Dunn
Funny Funny satirical article about The Mountain Goats' forthcoming album coming with an academic syllabus Jennifer Sandlin
"Dig Where Your Stand", Swedish rallying cry for workers, translated into English for the first time Elías Villoro
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
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
white house Trump White House commemorates 850th anniversary of Christian martyr St. Thomas Becket Thom Dunn
manga Yoshiharu Tsuge: the first manga artist who used his personal life as story material Mark Frauenfelder