What did ordinary Tudors do for work? Inside the 16th-century daily grind
Forget silk-clad courtiers – most people in the 16th-century toiled from dawn to dusk just to keep food on the table. Men ploughed, hedged, and hauled in the fields while…
Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real” Anymore
Why don't movies feel "real" anymore? A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.
A local printmaker creates a multi-use space to support their community
Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood welcomes River Press. River Press is a studio, shop, and gallery dedicated exclusively to showcasing and selling work from local Milwaukee artists. Run by printmaker Mya Giuliani,…
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF
To start, one of the problems with the Must Read Magazines business model is that any progress achieved by a single author doesn’t accrue to all authors. Each author must…
The reasons why are there are no reasons
evolution isn't goal-oriented
Raising the Bardo
Amie Barrodale’s contemporary book of the dead
Quite Contrary
Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother