I thought this piece from Isaac Butler examining how Daniel Day-Lewis goes about his acting work was really interesting. I have a ...

This state of pure being is the actor’s equivalent of when great athletes are “in the zone,” or the trance that a jazz improviser enters when they’re really cooking. The name for it is a Russian word, ...

In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the Senate to argue against cutting federal funding for public broadcasting. During his tes ...

In his latest video essay, Thomas Flight praises the comfort film and shares some examples (The Big Lebowski, Perfect Days, ...

Last year, Gretchen Rubin wrote a widely circulated piece about trading the “empty nest” metaphor for something that & ...

In a 2014 preface for his 1978 book The Ohlone Way, a description of how the indigenous peoples of California’s Bay Area lived before Europeans arrived, Malcolm Margolin shared a list of what he ...

In a 2014 preface for his 1978 book The Ohlone Way, a description of how the indigenous peoples of California’s Bay Area lived before Europeans arrived, Malcolm Margolin shared a list of what he ...

In a 2014 preface for his 1978 book The Ohlone Way, a description of how the indigenous peoples of California’s Bay Area liv ...

Last year, Gretchen Rubin wrote a widely circulated piece about trading the “empty nest” metaphor for something that “emphasizes possibility”: the open door. I somehow hadn’t read it when it came out, ...

The latest video from Kurzgesagt imagines a scenario in which an advanced civilization called the Noxans can potentially ...

On May 22, 1981, for the finale of the show’s 12th season, Mister Rogers visited Sesame Street. With apologies to the Aven ...

In his latest video, Evan Puschak looks at the differences between Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence and Martin S ...