FictionJune 16, 2026
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, it was the beginning of space, and the wildest events in cosmic history happened in the first sliver of a second. A plain-language tour of the first nanosecond, what the leftover…
FictionJune 16, 2026
Nostalgia is mostly a lie, but some of what we traded away after 2000 cost us something real. DVDs you actually owned, phone numbers in your head, the map of your own city, boredom that fed your imagination. A clear-eyed…
FictionJune 16, 2026
Most writers who try to write a nonhuman character just put a human in a costume. Writing a real alien, animal, or AI point of view means subtracting yourself, one assumption at a time, until what is left is a…
FictionJune 16, 2026
The Mars colony in the movies, a gleaming glass dome with green gardens and sunset views, would kill everyone inside a week. The real thing will be buried under meters of red dirt, built by robots before anyone arrives, and…
Artificial IntelligenceJune 15, 2026
The U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
GhostwritingJune 15, 2026
None of these felt like stories when they happened. A brick in a doorway. A microwave on the wrong network. Each one ended up carrying a chapter.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Every May 25, fans of Douglas Adams carry a towel to honor the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide. The first Towel Day came in 2001, two weeks after his death at 49. Don't panic, and always know where your towel…
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Star Wars opened in 1977 and changed movies forever, and I was there on opening day, in a line that wrapped around the block. On May the Fourth, a look back at the film that taught a generation about myth.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at 18 and published it in 1818, often called the first real science fiction. The deepest thing about it: the monster was never the villain. A look at sympathy, creation, and responsibility.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Dune: Part Three lands December 18, 2026, adapting Dune Messiah and closing Villeneuve's trilogy. A ranking of every Dune adaptation, and a look at what makes Herbert's monumental source so hard to film.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
In 1954, Kirk Douglas brought Homer's wandering hero to the big screen, putting the Odyssey in front of a mass audience. A look at one of the oldest stories ever told and why it has survived for millennia.
ObservancesJune 14, 2026
Sherlockians mark January 6 as Holmes' birthday, though Conan Doyle never set one. The detective of four novels and 56 stories became the most famous in history. A look at Holmes and the case for real detection.
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