120 After Hemingway
By Kurt Cole Eidsvig. His lookalike contest is a Key West tradition. This year, it intersects with a FaceApp craze that renders everyone Hemingway.
Whose Father?
By Jane Yolen. This Founding Father mural is stoking national controversy. Whose colonial narrative is it, anyway?
Other Names
By Chera Hammons. The iconic Cadillac Ranch has amassed graffiti signatures for decades. Why would anyone want it erased?
Remora
By Richard Garcia. It’s another word for remorse.
The Adventures of Shrubbery Man
By Pesach Rotem. For that time the U.S. Treasury Secretary’s father paid $91 million for a Jeff Koons sculpture.
Universal Vault Fire
By Maryann Corbett. Fire destroyed a treasure trove of master recordings. New investigations reveal whose music was lost forever.
First Impressions
By henry 7. reneau, jr. On the question of embracing the foreign and unfamiliar.
The Human Condition
By Denise Sedman. An erasure poem to honor the anniversary of Anthony Bourdain’s death.
In the Bonehouse
By Dawn Manning. A Czech bonehouse, built from over 40,000 skeletons, is being mapped with computer models and reconstructed.
Chernobyl
By Devon Balwit. HBO’s new Chernobyl series revisits the nuclear disaster that turned a city into a radiation zone.