Humor
Nancy Holochwost on the items she suspects Netflix is selling her via product placement.
science
Dr. Lisa Gardiner, on her work as an earth scientist and how it makes watching floods in her community invigorating as well as troubling.
Books
Are you trapped in a Muriel Spark novel? Only one way to find out.
Artwork
Byzantine art: just the way normal faces look with eyes in them.
Books
Pamela is a great book about a terrible thing. How do you read books like that?
Link Roundup
The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.
Movies
We get not one but two Hercules movies this year.
LGBT
Molly talks about not wanting to identify with everything that's bound up in the word "transgendered," and how that's evolved over time.