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Me, Myself and I: Brunelle's Doppelganger Project
A look at Francois Brunelle's I'm Not a Look-Alike project, a 12-year photo series of portraits of unrelated people who…
Metaphorosis Magazine
A monthly speculative fiction magazine publishing free short stories in science fiction, fantasy, and slipstream, with a…
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain
A Duke law center history of Mickey Mouse's 95-year entanglement with copyright, showing how Disney borrowed from the pu…
Middle English - History of English
An accessible guide to how English changed after the Norman Conquest, with French loanwords, Chaucer, the Black Death an…
Movie Posters of 2014: Hits and Misses
A designer's annual roundup of the best movie posters of 2014, with the standout hits, a few misses and some in-between,…
Mr. Darcy's Ten Thousand a Year
An essay that decodes Mr. Darcy's famous income in Pride and Prejudice, using bond yields and 18th-century English finan…
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
The full text of Muhammad Ali's boastful 1974 speech after beating George Foreman, where he claims to have wrestled an a…
Mutt & Jeff: The First Successful Daily Strip
How Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff, born as a horse-racing gag in a San Francisco paper, became the first hit daily comic st…
My Friend Aaron
A short story told as a memoir of a brilliant childhood friend who obsessively chased one fixation after another, from r…
My Mother Declared My Bedroom a Disaster Area
A boy writes to President Reagan asking for federal disaster relief to clean his messy bedroom, and receives a wonderful…
Mystery Scene
A magazine for mystery and crime fiction fans covering new releases, author profiles, and the history of the detective s…
Narrative Magazine
An online literary magazine publishing free fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from both established and emerging writers,…
National Geographic
Media platform covering exploration, wildlife, science, history, and travel through storytelling and photography.
Nightmare Magazine
An online horror and dark fantasy magazine publishing free short stories, poetry, and author interviews for readers who…
no man's land
An online magazine of contemporary German literature in English translation, publishing free short stories, poetry, and…
Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse
A longform piece in The Walrus arguing that the book industry blames readers for falling nonfiction sales when its own d…
Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
A tongue-in-cheek but carefully argued fan theory that Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings is secretly the most sini…
On Beauty and the Death of African American Literature
An essay on Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty that asks whether African American literature is dying, examining Black petit…
On Bill Watterson's Refusal to License Calvin and Hobbes
An essay on why cartoonist Bill Watterson turned down fortunes in toys, movies and merchandise for Calvin and Hobbes, an…
On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi
Adam Golaski imagines and reviews a David Lynch-directed Return of the Jedi, a strange, dreamlike piece of fan criticism…
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Orchid Fever
Susan Orlean's 1995 New Yorker essay about John Laroche, a toothless, obsessive orchid poacher in the Florida swamps - t…
Orson Welles' Drunk Wine Commercial
A first-hand behind-the-scenes account of the infamous Paul Masson wine commercial shoot where a visibly tipsy Orson Wel…
Oskar Fischinger Biography
The Center for Visual Music's biography of Oskar Fischinger, the abstract animation pioneer whose hand-made films set ge…
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