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The Morning News
Western art has a habit of erasing powerful, black-skinned women from mythology and history.
↩︎ BBC News 2d
Elegance from Mama Casset, a pioneer of 1920s Senegalese photography.
↩︎ Quartz Africa 2d
Kenyans criticize the New York Times for publishing a picture of dead bodies after the Nairobi attack.
↩︎ BRIGHT Magazine 2d
A mathematician figured out how to game OKCupid's questions to turn up more matches.
↩︎ WIRED 2d

I think that in the end we all need our Nocturamas. Your Nocturama may, indeed, be the most important thing you ever do. Failure fortifies us. It moves us forward.

Nick Cave finds creative solace in the critical backlash against his Nocturama album.
↩︎ The Red Hand Files
2d
Remembering an enchanting puzzle book with an interactive review that mirrors the structure of Maze.
↩︎ Electric Literature 2d

If Trump tweeted out asking each of his followers to murder one journalist, would you remove him? That would be a violent threat. We’d definitely ... we’d certainly talk about it.

In an interview, Ashley Feinberg takes Jack Dorsey to task—deservedly so—for his ineffectiveness in curtailing Twitter harassment.
↩︎ The Huffington Post
2d
Saturn's rings may disappear in 100 million years, though may only have formed as recently as 10 million years ago.
↩︎ CNN 2d
A new take on delivery systems of the future: robot dogs in driverless vans.
↩︎ Designboom 2d
The austerity of recent design and fashion was a result of the Great Recession. Now in the era of Trump gauche, gaudy is back.
↩︎ Vox 2d
Federal law enforcement officials say Trump told Cohen to lie to investigators about a Moscow Trump Tower.
↩︎ Buzzfeed News 2d
A former Times editor has a raft of factual errors in her galleys, in part because publishers still don't fact-check books.
↩︎ Vox 2d

For opponents of the president’s xenophobic policies, a better plan is to make the affirmative case for a lot more immigrants.

An open-border policy may be America’s best shot to compete in the future with India and China.
↩︎ The New York Times
2d
Air traffic controlers operate in “psychological safety:" errors are addressed with training and support, not shame or punishment.
↩︎ Quartz 2d
"Things I like: fires, Venice, tequila." A list of lists written by Susan Sontag.
↩︎ Lithub 2d
A tribute to metal fashion, "the most elitist subculture in the world."
↩︎ Paper Journal 2d

My body is not fixed in place. This denim jacket fades & wears & the patches accrue & nothing is being preserved here. I am not an archive. I am authentically alive.

What it’s like to be a trans woman and a metalhead in a battle vest from the rural Midwest.
↩︎ Barrelhouse
2d
“In the glare of your mind, be modest. / And beholden to what is tactile, and / thrilling.” Poet Mary Oliver dies at 83.
↩︎ Slate 2d

Here are your 2019 Tournament of Books brackets.

The Tournament of Books Staff

The 2019 Tournament of Books presented by Field Notes kicks off on March 6. With our 2019 books and judges announced and just over a month and a half to go until the play-in match, you're ready to plan your reading and lock in your ToB predictions.

So here you go: the 2019 Tournament of Books brackets. Suitable for framing or wadding up and throwing across the room halfway through the opening round.

Happy reading, and we'll see you soon!

3d
Ideas of three-dimensional space are rethought in artist Gabrielle Teschner's Sculpture That Is Flat series.
↩︎ Booooooom 3d