Smaller Than a Fingernail: Unboxing the World’s Tiniest Books
Have you ever seen a book smaller than a fingernail? In this unboxing, we explore some of the tiniest books ever created — from fairy-sized poetry, religious texts and miniature…
99% Invisible: Where the Fuck Are We?
For centuries, the world's greatest minds were stumped by the deadly mystery of longitude, until an obsessive underdog entered the fray and changed navigation forever.
The People’s Recorder: A Giant Listening Project
During the height of the Great Depression, the U.S government hired out-of-work writers and laid-off reporters and sent them out to record the stories of all kinds of Americans. Called…
The Written Image: Ediciones Vigía
Named after Plaza de la Vigía (Watchtower Square) in Matanzas, Cuba, Ediciones Vigía was cofounded in Matanzas in April 1985 by visual artist Rolando Estévez Jordán and poet Alfredo Zaldívar.…
Literary MagNet: Patricia Q. Bidar
In 2018, Patricia Q. Bidar, at the age of fifty-eight, published her first pieces of flash fiction. More than seven years later she has published over a hundred stories in…
The Literature of Illness, Healing
Bellevue Literary Review (BLR)
Writers’ History Lessons: The People’s Recorder podcast
The first episode of the People’s Recorder podcast begins with host Chris Haley declaring: “In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when many said America was at her lowest point, something…
How An Antique Dealer Lives Small Above His Shop, Melbourne 60sqm/646sqft
Above his Melbourne antique and local design shop, Ma House Supply Store, Ben Mooney has turned a 60sqm/646sqft rental apartment into a home filled with humour, history, and heart. Part…
Behind the Zines #20 September 2025
Issue 20 September 2025 of Behind the Zines. A Zine About Zines
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was…