The French Cartoonist Who Limned New York City
French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé’s favorite thing about New York is The New Yorker. The magazine that, since 1925, has celebrated humorous drawings to keep current events...
Books About Creating, Maintaining, and Leveling-Up Your Friendships
I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines. Dr. Murthy’s thesis is simple: our relationships (or lack thereof) impact every aspect of our health and every level of...
I Had a Miscarriage And It’s Time To Tell That Story
“Placenta, Polenta, a Piece of Onion” by Kirby Chen Mages It was the winter that Ryan and I were squatting in the building on North Avenue...
What You Should Be Reading This Winter According to Indie Booksellers
Every Tuesday, a wave of new books is published, fresh off the printing press onto the shelves of bookstores around the world. Even for a book...
Four More Years: A Look at Books Released During Leap Years
It’s Leap Year Day — which means we get a whole extra day to read! I started thinking about leap years a few months ago, and...
Djinn Like a Lion: 10 Splendiferous New SFF Books Out March 2024
Hello, SFF readers! 2024 is march-ing right along (see what I did there?), and there are a ton of amazing science fiction and fantasy releases headed...
OpenAI: ‘The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us’
In recent months, rightsholders of all ilks have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list includes record labels, individual authors, visual artists, and...
ISPs Request Records to Show How Piracy Fight Blocked Legitimate Sites
When attempting to block pirated content online, there is always a significant risk that legitimate content will be blocked too. Proponents of a tough new law...
Hollywood Used ‘Dynamic+ Injunction’ to Shut Down movie-web and Other Pirate Sites
This weekend, we reported that the open source movie search app movie-web lost control over the domain name of its demo site. Registrar Namecheap suspended the...
Pirate Sites With Malicious Ads Face Restrictions Under New Initiative
There was a time when visiting a pirate site was much like visiting any other. Keen to attract eyeballs wherever they might be, many of the...
