Labor Limbo

• Vanessa Davis

Can't stop, can't stop

Published on May 5, 2019 12:00PM EDT

Tolkien is a wildly underrated prose stylist

• Maria Bustillos

Anyway I slacked off work, and started on my contribution to the posterity of Tolkien fandom

Published on May 5, 2019 12:00PM EDT

The Billboards of Sonoma County

• Felix Kent

The incredibly ugly Korbel billboard made me actively twitchy the way the Emerald Cup billboard did.

Published on May 5, 2019 12:00PM EDT

Such a Fine Week of Popula

• The Editors

Amazing work that you may have missed; library stacks, a Philadelphia courtroom, African classrooms and other places.

Published on May 5, 2019 12:00PM EDT