John Grisham on a reader who’s spent 11 years in Guantanamo without being charged with a crime

Mental Floss rounded up the very first issues of 19 magazines, and the range in cover design is…

MARLENE ∞, “Bon Voyage”

Friday Open Thread

“Flannery O’Connor lived the last years of her life surrounded by peacocks.”

Haim Covers Sheryl Crow’s “Strong Enough”

How to Grow a Husband Tree

Interview With My Mom, One Who Stayed Home

Nothing Is More Beautiful Than This Dolphin Gracefully Swim-Birthing Its Young

Lorde talks online “cleanliness,” subtweeting and new luxuries (“I’m gonna buy a double bed.

Taylor Swifties

We’re Going to Mars This November and Bringing 1,100 Haikus

HAERTS, “Wings”

Jesmyn Ward on American history and racial “threats secreted like seeds”

“Thank you so much. I am that girl that ate out that girl on the show.”

The Gaze That Stands Between You and Everything Real: An Interview with Artist Alex McQuilkin

Soap Is the Devil

Missed Connection — w4w

Adam Brody on porn: “It’s probably perpetrated more good than bad; I mean it’s probably pacified us”

The Abridged Mean Girls