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.
My Heart is in Bensheim
By Martina Litty. A video of a fat rat stuck in a manhole goes viral.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
By Devon Balwit. The first woman walks into a bar— and survives.
Whom Do I Address?
By The Poet Mj. Australia is overdue for a reckoning.
#EATLIKEANDY
By Joseph Pascutazz. “Eating is an art.”