Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Manufactured things are, yo ...

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Big thanks to Arcustech for hosting the site and offering amazing tech support.

I am only a couple of chapters into James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (loving it!) and in the first chapter, there’s a ...

If you somehow missed Deacon King Kong — it was on every 2020 best of list — you can get it at Bookshop (paperback & ebook), Amazon (paperback & ebook), and Libro (audiobook, read by the ...

If you somehow missed Deacon King Kong — it was on every 2020 best of list — you can get it at Bookshop (paperback & ebook), Amazon (paperback & ebook), and Libro (audiobook, read by the ...

The cheese was free. It came like clockwork for years, every first Saturday of the month, arriving like magic in the wee hours in Hot Sausage’s boiler room in the basement of Building 17. Ten crates ...

Here are some of the winners, finalists, and nominees from the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition and ...

Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion Yesterday, the NY Times published an article about Donald Trump’s threat to take away citizenship from a ...

President Trump said on Saturday he was considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship. Trump has feuded with the comedian and actress since before he became president. Experts said the ...

When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee men and women showed up, many of whom were war veterans. Some came with shotguns. Some came with baseball bats.” ...

In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen thousands or even tens of thousands of incredible astronomical images and yet ...