music history Very little is known about this incredible boogie woogie pianist (video) Mark Frauenfelder
art A sneak preview of Drew Friedman's book of portraits of underground comix icons Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants A new edition of Octavia Butler's classic postapocalyptic Afrofuturist novel "Parable of the Sower," with an introduction by Hugo winner NK Jemisin Cory Doctorow
science fiction Ruminations on decades spent writing stories that run more than 1,000,000 words Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife Cory Doctorow
tabloids The Queen's Nazi shame, JonBenet's killer found, and Owen Wilson's baby mama revealed, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan