bookstores Powell's Books is now selling perfume that smells like old books David Pescovitz

Fancy fonts Font of Dune: the mystery of the science fiction series' classic book cover typeface Rob Beschizza

documentaries The Forever Prisoner, a documentary about the US torture machine by Alex Gibney Elías Villoro

maps See what the White Collar Crime Early Warning System (WCCEWS) thinks of your neighborhood Elías Villoro

books Rolling Warrior: a polio survivor's memoir of fighting for disability rights Elías Villoro

solar power What it's like to go off-grid in Manhattan Mark Frauenfelder

AI Software lets you design new synthetic voices from scratch Mark Frauenfelder

fake news A romance author allegedly faked her own suicide to boost book sales Thom Dunn

robots Apple introduces new AI-narrated audiobooks which are somehow different from just using Siri Thom Dunn

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

music Meet "Spoon Lady" Abby Roach Jennifer Sandlin

Comic Books After nearly 30 years, there's finally a new issue of Miracleman by Neil Gaiman Thom Dunn

bullying Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer's legacy Elías Villoro

books A Cajun Night Before Christmas turns 50 Jennifer Sandlin

Jesus and John Wayne A great primer on the rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States Jennifer Sandlin

books Checking out the Black Speculative Arts Movement Elías Villoro

Ani-Mates Australian actor and comedian Sam Cotton's "Ani-Mates" Jennifer Sandlin

wikipedia Station Eleven author does an interview just to fix her marital status on Wikipedia Thom Dunn

trauma Arizona's Carefarm is where grief can be embraced, not avoided Elías Villoro

Hustling Got to admire this author's hustle: selling and signing his own books outside of Powell's Rusty Blazenhoff