“It’s time to share the spotlight, Midwest,” writes Jonathan Glover in yesterday’s Spokesman-Review. “Frigid temperatures, heavy snow and biting winds are + more
“[O]ver the past few decades, scientists have gotten significantly—even staggeringly—better at predicting the weather.” “It’s like salmon,” says the inventor + more
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In + more
Breaking news: Social media is a cesspool. But at least Twitter – that wretched hive of scum and villainy – isn’t all + more
“The history of rock groups” writes Ian Leslie, “can be viewed as a vast experimental laboratory for studying the core + more
Thing one: Despite its appearance, the word contumely* is not an adjective. It’s a noun, and, according to my copy + more
The whole sordid tale behind the rise and fall of Swinger’s Tiki Palace (with pictures!). Will Lloyd makes a pretty + more
Used to be – back in the good old days, before CK decided to crack down on all the fun + more
SONNET 116 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which + more
Today in 1941, in Leland, Mississippi, Wadada Leo Smith was born. Over the last few years, Smith has become not + more
It was in the early 1800s, writes Sarah Zhang, that people began “experimenting with the new possibilities offered by modern + more
I picked up my first copy of Desert Oracle the summer before last at the Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel, Nevada—mostly + more
Got a text from the missus about the latest salvo in the War on Things We Don’t Like Right Now.™ + more
The American edition of Andrew Roberts’s Churchill: Walking with Destiny comes out today. I know, I know—you’re probably wondering whether yet + more