The fable of Stone Soup is probably my favorite piece of European folklore. In the Russian version, which I prefer, called Axe Porridge, the story goes something like this: A soldier returning from war stops at a village, hungry and tired. He knocks on the door of a rich, stingy Scrooge of a woman.…

When you lay out the recent examples of older women in science fiction and fantasy, you find a decided lack. Or at least I do. (Let me ’splain.) By “older,” I mean women whose concerns are those of motherhood, middle age, old age: women who believe in their own mortality, who wear the weight of…

Photo Illustration by Stephen Gregory Keith Roy began warning his clients about a faltering Vancouver housing market in early 2012. The realtor says he was tipped off not by industry statistics, but by chatter across backyard fences. “When you hear about a homeowner who thinks his neighbour got too…

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I have a confession. I advise people never to read the comments on newspaper websites. But I do read them. I can’t take my eyes off them. They are a train wreck of logic and hate and contemptuous entitlement. Lately however, especially the comments on stories about First Nations, they seem entirely…

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I lead the core product team at Gamma in San Francisco. Photograph by Melanie Riccardi Posts I keep coming back to Featured Jun 2, 2025 Joining Gamma Jun 2, 2025 Read More → Jun 2, 2025 Jun 10, 2024 A Month With Generative AI (2022) Jun 10, 2024 Read More → Jun 10, 2024 Jun 14, 2023 Investing in…

[A rough sketch of me talking about sidewalks.] Being a sidewalk blogger, I am quite used to inducing near-catatonic states of boredom in people that I meet. It's almost like one of Mesmer's parlor tricks. I only have to start mentioning semi-permeable pavers or minimum parking requirements in the…

Claire of The Captive Reader, one of my favourite book blogs, has a post about reading books before you are ready for them. She quotes Sheila Kaye-Smith on not reading books when you are too young for them and goes on to explain how she read much Great Literature as a teenager without it doing her a…

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I wrote this, and I think/hope it's important RT @verge: Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century http://t.co/0OAA8JI4

Learn about our newest title, The Pioneer Detectives The Millions turns 10 years old this year, and to celebrate, we’re trying something new. The Millions Originals will give our talented writers a platform to publish as ebooks longer, magazine-quality pieces that will explore a variety of unusual…

Emily Heist Moss is sick and tired of the men who harass her and make her feel unsafe in public spaces. It’s a drizzly Friday in Chicago and I’m leaving a bar with my roommate sometime after midnight. We’re on a quest for tacos and we’re discussing the finer points—Should we get pork or beef? From…

The infield fly ball is the second worst outcome for a hitter besides a strikeout. With almost 100% of all popups turning into outs, a hitter, who is prone to skying the ball into the infield, will generate more outs and therefor a lower batting average. Several factors make a pitch more likely to…

The labor market is the most common reason for migration. IT’S a refrain heard every four years: “If [insert Republican name] is elected president, I’m moving to Canada.” The pledge comes mostly from left-leaning Americans who view Canada, with its universal health care and cultural progressiveness,…

This is about not liking your apartment, but also about appreciating one's parents. http://t.co/DSOYz4pU

By Taras Grescoe When I pocketed my first driver’s licence, in Vancouver in the ’80s, Bruce Springsteen’s paeans to the highways ruled the airwaves (all those “Broken heroes on a last-chance power drive!”), Stephen King’s Christine was playing at the drive-ins (High-school geek falls in love with…

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Patrons make their way into the Waldorf Hotel in East Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, January 19, 2013.Rafal Gerszak/The Globe and Mail Dozens of people were lined up outside the Waldorf Hotel – in wardrobe choices ranging from skimpy sequined dresses to enormous faux fur overcoats – as…

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{Wed Mar 21 12} Ellen Ullman read from her new book By Blood and spoke with Jaron Lanier in Berkeley's Mrs. Dalloway's. This event was co-sponsored by The Bay Citizen and ZYZZYVA, whose managing editor, Oscar Villalon, served as moderator. Find more at http://litseen.com.

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I’ve written here before about the ongoing puzzle of improving the ratio of women to men in the tech sector. It’s an issue with many angles. There’s an acknowledged “pipeline problem” – a lack of women graduating from university with technical degrees (or emerging from the equally prevalent & valued…

Ellen Ullman is a novelist, critic and computer programmer so well known for her incisive, highly personal writing on technology that when her latest novel “By Blood” appeared, even the New York Times was surprised to discover that it’s set long before the Web, in Zodiac Killer–era San Francisco,…

The flâneur began in the 6th. Les Deux Magots—coffee—then next door to Café de Flore—hot chocolate. I cut southwest, along the edge of the Luxembourg Gardens, then down Rue de Fleurus. Gertrude Stein’s old apartment appeared suddenly, anonymous save a small plaque. I paused, snapped a photo, and…

This entry is part 7 of 15 in the series Psychohistory The story of neurasthenia or “invalidism” is a curious mid-nineteenth-century chapter in the story of the emancipation of women. As Barbara Ehrenreich argues in it was almost entirely a social phenomenon: The largest demographic to suffer from…

Chicago rapper Chief Keef’s major-label debut “Finally Rich” has sparked verbal sparring among rap critics about cultural tourism and hiphop. This valuable conversation began with a glowing review by Jordan Sargent , and an angry response from RapRadar’s Brian “B.Dot” Miller. The central controversy…

It’s finally happened: Jacobin’s in the New York Times. So to help commemorate this special moment — when the Grey Lady herself acknowledged the presence of a dyed-in-the-wool socialist quarterly — I thought I’d write up a brief “Jacobin’s greatest hits” to help any new readers get acquainted with…

When Bhaskar Sunkara was growing up in Westchester County, he likes to say, he dreamed of being a professional basketball player. But the height gods, among others, didn’t smile in his favor. So in 2009, during a medical leave from his sophomore year at George Washington University, Mr. Sunkara…

Featured in “House of Cards,” from far right, Michael Kelly, Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey.Credit...Patrick Harbron for Netflix EARLY in the new Netflix series “House of Cards” the narrator and card player Representative Francis Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, looks straight into the camera and…