History "I hope you will never see this letter" Yuri Gagarin's note to his wife and daughters in 1961 Mark Frauenfelder
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Comics Go behind the scenes of the disastrous Spider Man musical in Brian Michael Bendis's new comic Thom Dunn
books Book Gift Ideas: Black Feminist memoirs on justice, Africanfuturism, theoretical physics, and abolition. Elías Villoro
Edward Gorey Edward Gorey's macabre style penned on envelopes for annual art contest Rusty Blazenhoff
free speech An actual thoughtful discussion about what "cancel culture" does and doesn't mean Thom Dunn