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Tintin, Herge and Chang
A long read on the friendship between Belgian cartoonist Herge and Chinese sculptor Chang Chongren, and how it reshaped…
Tony
The Wire creator David Simon's long personal remembrance of how he became friends with Anthony Bourdain, and what Bourda…
Top 20 Russian Movies According to Russians
A ranked list of the Soviet and Russian films Russians love most, from The Diamond Arm to Gentlemen of Fortune, with eac…
Tove Jansson's Illustrations of The Hobbit
A look at the playful illustrations Moomin creator Tove Jansson drew for a Swedish edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit, and…
TV Tropes
Community-edited wiki cataloging storytelling devices and conventions across TV, film, books, games, and other media.
TV's Best Drama You've Probably Never Heard Of
A passionate essay making the case for Halt and Catch Fire, the 1980s computing-industry drama that starts slow and grow…
Two Jealous Perverts: Give Me Another Present!
John Waters's essay on why he loves Christmas, hosted on Two Jealous Perverts, an old-school fan site with Waters pop qu…
Two Minutes of the Simpsons
A comedy writer dissects two minutes of The Simpsons joke by joke, counting the gags and explaining how each one works,…
Two Solitudes
Carl Steadman's short story from the InterText online fiction magazine, a romance told entirely through email that captu…
U.S. Acres Goes Half Hog
A comic-history page on how Jim Davis launched the U.S. Acres strip in 1986 as a second series after Garfield, with stri…
Uncanny Magazine
An award-winning speculative fiction magazine offering free online fiction, poetry, and essays exploring science fiction…
Uncyclopedia
A satirical parody of Wikipedia written entirely as comedy, turning the encyclopedia format itself into a long-running a…
Unraveling character webs
A data story that maps which characters interact in famous novels and TV shows, drawing their relationships as webs and…
Useless Hacker Movie Trivia
A lovingly compiled list of the passwords, passcodes and computer-security howlers that appear in hacker movies and sci-…
Verse Daily
A long-running site that posts one new poem every day sourced from recent poetry publications, functioning as a daily sa…
Wallace and Gromit Font
A case study by Jamie Clarke Type on Buttered Crumpet, the custom typeface made for Wallace and Gromit, showing the desi…
Was Queen Victoria the Victim of Coercive Control?
Novelist Daisy Goodwin rereads Queen Victoria's diaries to re-examine her marriage to Prince Albert, asking whether the…
Waxwing
A free online literary magazine focused on international and translated writing, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfict…
Wes Anderson and Jacques Henri Lartigue
A side-by-side look at the photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue that appear in Rushmore and The Life Aquatic, tracing a…
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What Do People Do All Day?
A witty close reading of Richard Scarry's Busytown that unpacks the economics, labor and politics of the children's clas…
What Happened to Movie Taglines?
A naming expert looks at why movie taglines used to be memorable and quotable and how they became wordy, redundant and b…
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What Happened with LEGO
A charts-heavy analysis of LEGO sets over decades, asking whether bricks got pricier, pieces got smaller and kits got mo…
What is the Hong Kong New Wave?
A beginner's guide to the Hong Kong New Wave, the 1979-1995 film movement of Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Wong Kar-wai, coveri…
What is the Uncanny?
An Oregon State guide-to-literary-terms explainer on the uncanny, Freud's 1919 idea of the familiar turned strange, with…
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