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Grammarphobia
A blog by two language writers answering readers' questions about English grammar, usage, and word origins in short, wel…
Granta
One of the most influential literary magazines in English, publishing new fiction, memoir, and reportage from major and…
Grimm Disney: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
A close comparison of the Brothers Grimm's dark Snow White tale with Disney's 1937 film, looking at what changed, from t…
Guernica
A nonprofit magazine of art and politics publishing essays, fiction, and poetry that engage with global affairs from a l…
Habits Of Highly Effective Writers: Balzac
A short, lively portrait of Honore de Balzac's writing routine: 85 novels in 20 years, endless proof revisions, hiding f…
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Hank Mann: A Dependable Comedy Veteran
A profile of Hank Mann, the silent-era clown best known as Chaplin's boxing opponent in City Lights, part of Travalanche…
Hannibal - Sources: Livy
A history teacher's lively guide to reading Livy as a source on Hannibal, arguing he was the bestselling JK Rowling of R…
Hello From Your Friendly TV Translator
A subtitle translator's essay on the invisible craft of rendering jokes, slang and wordplay for TV screens, and why the…
Hobart
An irreverent online literary magazine mixing short fiction, essays, and pop-culture obsessed writing, known for its pla…
Hokusai: Ukiyo-e Prints of Ghosts
A look at Hokusai's eerie woodblock prints of Japanese ghosts and spirits, with the images and the folk tales behind eac…
Hopkin Explained
The inside story of the Hopkin Green Frog, the lost-toy-frog flyers that appeared around Seattle in 2003 and became an e…
How DCI Movie Delivery and Encryption Works
A detailed tour of how digital cinema packages are built, encrypted and keyed so movies can be shown in theaters around…
How I Grew My Substack From 439 to 451 Free Subscribers
A deadpan satire of growth-hacking advice, promising to reveal how to gain twelve whole subscribers in eleven months wit…
How Much Would It Cost To Build The Death Star?
A playful back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much steel the Death Star would need and what it would cost, concludin…
How the Soviet Circus Blended Art and Ideology
An illustrated essay on how the nationalised Soviet circus became an ideological tool, from training schools and circus…
How To Talk Comedy Writer
Cartoonist Andy Riley's funny glossary of the jargon British comedy writers use in the writers' room, decoding terms for…
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Hyperbole and a Half: Menace
Allie Brosh's illustrated story about the intoxicating power of being a tiny child with opinions, told in her famous cru…
I Ate Nothing but Nutella for a Week
A funny personal essay recounting a broke 21-year-old's misguided week-long experiment of eating nothing but Nutella, an…
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
A Navy Crusader pilot's first-hand story of ejecting from a burning jet, falling 15,000 feet when his parachute failed,…
I Organized a 20-Acre Game of Capture the Flag
A student's first-person account of planning and running a huge capture-the-flag game across twenty acres, with rules, l…
I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10
A warm personal story of a ten-year-old who mailed a roller coaster idea to Disneyland in 1978 and what happened next, t…
I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape
A hilarious first-person account of tasting Honda's capsaicin-laced rodent-repelling wire tape, and what happens when cu…
I Watched An 857-Hour Movie
A writer sits through Logistics, an 857-hour film that follows a pedometer in reverse from a Swedish shop to a Chinese f…
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If Looks Could Kill
Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, recalls demoing the PET at a trade show and a memorable run-in w…
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