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

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

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

Swift Justice is a short documentary that, perhaps for the first time, takes viewers inside a rural Afghan courtroom operated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illustrator Quentin Blake, who is most widely known for his energetic drawings for Roald Dahl’s books, generously shares h ...