Jan 02, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Jan 02, 2026: Will the world offer itself to me, Kafka? The morning started with some more ruminatory daydreaming. Stuffing myself full of other people’s talents until it felt less like inspiration and more like bingeing, scrolling, absorbing, hoarding ...
Jan 01, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Happy Public Domain Day 2026! Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
Dec 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Dec 31, 2025 – Jan 01, 2026: Nobody Is Here. Happy New Year. “Nobody Is Here.” Is the chant I chant I have been chanting. It keeps looping, not loud enough to be prayer, not honest enough to be a lie. Things have been happening and I have been wondering wher...
Dec 31, 2025 from BEEW Socks, Geniuses, Gangsters A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In. It came out of a period of cultural vertigo, dark headlines, dis...
Dec 28, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.
Dec 19, 2025 from Ploum.net Prepare for That Stupid World Prepare for That Stupid World You probably heard about the Wall Street Journal story where they had a snack-vending machine run by a chatbot created by Anthropic. At first glance, it is funny and i...
Dec 15, 2025 from BEEW Hope Is a Complicated Little Bastard Sometimes the mind underlines things before you know why. You jot down a quote, a song lyric, something someone said, something that strikes you as important, then another, then another, and before...
Dec 15, 2025 from Ploum.net How We Lost Communication to Entertainment How We Lost Communication to Entertainment All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected. A few days ag...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque.
Dec 04, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.
Dec 02, 2025 from Improve Something Today Going wrong, going great: notes for December 2025 2½ readings on seeing failures & responding to them. Celebrating my accomplished & wonderful pals.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) French lithographs of the Eiffel Tower and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private ...
Nov 23, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Another Sunday Another Sunday. It started with hope but the hope was crushed by crankiness. Had planned yesterday to go to the book fair with my sister and my mother. It is ruined. Plans were cancelled. I sat wit...
Nov 20, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
Nov 19, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria An Update on Life, Failures, and Here-and-There As you can notice, I have successfully abandoned my beautifully crafted, loaded-with-hopes NovPoWriMo project with the help of failure just after one week. Yes, and you know what? I am not even goi...
