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Own-Goal Football
The bizarre 1994 Caribbean Cup qualifier where Barbados and Grenada both tried to score own goals, and how a rule quirk…
People met in hotel lobbies
Selections from a Gilded Age Washington Post column that reported on whoever was spotted in the city's hotel lobbies, fu…
Pessimists Archive
A newsletter and archive collecting historical moral panics over new technologies, told through old newspaper clippings…
Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
Philip K. Dick's celebrated essay on reality, fake worlds and what makes a universe hold together, a dizzying tour throu…
Philip K. Dick: If You Find This World Bad
Extracts from Philip K. Dick's 1977 speech If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others, where he argue…
Pinocchio Is Weirder Than You Remember
A look at the original 1881 Pinocchio serial, from the puppet hanging dead from an oak to donkey-skin drums and dead-gir…
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Read the 22 storytelling rules first tweeted by Pixar story artist Emma Coats, short practical lessons on character, str…
Please Do Not Write Below This Line
A deadpan classic of the old web from BBCtvLicence.com, a mock bureaucratic reply to a television licence letter that ha…
Ploughshares Blog
The blog companion to the venerable literary journal Ploughshares, offering essays and craft talk on contemporary fictio…
Poem of the Week: The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming on PotW.org, a Poem of the Week site running since 1996 with an archive of past poems bro…
Poetry International
A Rotterdam-based archive connecting readers to poets and poems from dozens of countries, with translations that reveal…
Points
Data & Society's online magazine of essays exploring how technology and data reshape society, written for a general audi…
Political oppression in Trnka's The Hand
An essay on Jiri Trnka's 1965 puppet film The Hand, in which a potter is bullied by a giant glove into making statues, a…
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Adam Mastroianni charts box office, TV, books and music to show a shrinking cartel of franchises and superstars has conq…
Power Quote: Finnegans Wake
An HTMLGIANT post featuring ten of the longest words from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, including the hundred-letter thundercl…
Pranking My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads
A story of revenge by ad targeting: how a roommate was driven to paranoia by Facebook ads seemingly reading his mind, wi…
Project Hail Mary: Right and Wrong About Astrophysics
A Northeastern University astrophysicist weighs the science of the film Project Hail Mary, including its centrifugal gra…
Publishers Weekly
The publishing industry's trade magazine, tracking book deals, bestseller lists, and reviews that shape which titles rea…
QEDCat
The site of mathematicians Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, packed with playful recreational math articles, videos, and p…
Quiz Bowl Packets
A freely browsable archive of thousands of academic quiz bowl question packets, covering literature, science, and histor…
Rattle
A respected poetry magazine publishing new work, interviews with poets, and an active poets-respond section reacting to…
Real Life
An online magazine of essays examining how technology shapes everyday experience, from social media to surveillance, in…
Reedsy Blog
A publishing-industry blog offering practical, detailed advice on writing craft, self-publishing, and the business of ge…
Reports From Unknown Places
Illustrator Ninn Salaun files a new poetic report each day from unknown places, short dreamy dispatches about weather, t…
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