Environmental, Nuclear, and Disaster
Stephanie Kirchgaessner and John Hooper, “Pope Francis Warns of Destruction of Earth’s Ecosystem in Leaked Encyclical.”
Andrew Hoberek, “The Post-Apocalyptic Present.”
Matt Langione, “Will Art Save Our Descendants from Nuclear Waste?”
Tim McDonnell, “Here’s Why Obama Is Cracking Down on Airplane Pollution.”
Eric Markowitz, “Poison Prison: Is Toxic Dust Sickening Inmates Locked Up in Coal Country?”
Christopher Daley, “On Nuclear Criticism.”
Margaret DeMarco, “Details of Malmstrom Missile Officer’s Court-Martial.”
Science
Stephen Morgan, “Scientists Show Future Events Decide What Happens in the Past.”
Fiona MacDonald, “Reality Doesn’t Exist Until We Measure It, Quantum Experiment Confirms.”
Speculative fiction: go!
Adrienne LaFrance, “‘Hello Earth! Can You Hear Me?'”
National Security State
Erick Wemple, “Sunday Times Reporter on Snowden Story: We Don’t Have a Clue!”
Cory Doctorow, “‘Reporter’ Who Wrote Ridiculous Story about Snowden Leaks in China Admits He Was Just Acting as a Government Stenographer.”
Aisha Harris, “John Oliver Had Helen Mirren Read the CIA Torture Report So We’d All Stop Ignoring It.”
Alicia A. Caldwell, “Nearly 400,000 Homeland Security Employees May Have Had Private Data Compromised.”
Adam Chandler, “The Hacking of Federal Data Is Much Worse Than It First Seemed.”
Julia Fleischaker, “Melville House Sending Copies of the Torture Report to Presidential Candidates.”
Politics and Economics
David Remnick, “Charleston and the Age of Obama.”
Eric Zuesse, “My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House.”
Jeffrey M. Jones, “On Social Ideology, the Left Catches Up to the Right.”
Adam Stoneman, “The New Conspicuous Consumption.”
Rob Kuznia, “Rich Californians Balk at Limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water.’”
Ben Jacobs, “Hillary Clinton’s Unpaid Intern Limbo: A Grassroots Campaign of ‘Free Help.'”
Lauren Dillon, “7 Ways Jeb Bush and Gob Bluth Are the Same Person.”
Hyperarchival
Jennifer Schuessler, “Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Shelves.”
Franco Moretti et al., Micromégas: The Very Small, the Very Large, and the Object of Digital Humanities.
Mike Tierney, “Nature Helps Squeeze Out a Little More Mileage.”
Literature and Culture
Ben Lerner, “Diary.”
Ceridwen Dovey, “Can Reading Make Me Happier?”
Aaron Bady, “When Game of Thrones Stopped Being Necessary.”
Laura Miller, “Jonathan Franzen: First Words on Purity.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, Claire Colebrook, and many others, “Speculations Archive: There Will Have Been Humans.”
“Forever Publishing Agendas: Stephen Deusner Interviews Jessica Hopper.”
CELL: Consortium on Electronic Literature.
Leonardo Flores, “What Is E-Poetry?”
“Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein Interview Each Other on Close Listening.”
Ian Crouch, “Serena Williams Is America’s Greatest Athlete.”
Shea Serrano, “Sorry, Steph: LeBron Is Bruce Willis and the Warriors Are the Asteroid.”
Barry Petchesky, “MVP Award Be Damned, These Were the LeBron Finals.”
“To Keep Going During The Finals, LeBron James Can’t Take A Day Off.”
Nicole M. Aschoff, “A People’s Facebook.”
Ian McGuire, Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism.
Simon Parkin, “How Video Games Make You Work.”
Sadie Stein, “Copious Free Time” and “Sylvia Plath’s Sketches.”
Nick Tabor, “No Slouch,” on allusions to W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”
Alan Taylor, “The American West, 150 Years Ago.” (Just stunning photographs.)
Amy Wilder, “Sam Cohen.”
A. Will Brown interviews Rafaël Rozendaal.
Alexander Provan, Joshua Cohen, Jon Kessler, “Annual Report 2014: GlblVlgIdiot.”
Guy Trebay, “In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis.”
And great news! My good friend (and soon-to-be publisher) just won a major prize: “Adriana E. Ramírez takes first annual $10,000 PEN/Fusion Prize for ‘Dead Boys.'”
Humanities and Higher Education
Jaleesa Jones, “University of North Carolina Placed on Probation by Accreditation Agency.”
Lee Siegel, “Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans.”
Jordan Weissmann, “The New York Times Should Apologize for the Awful Op-Ed It Just Ran on Student Loans” and “Elizabeth Warren Wants Colleges to Pay a Price When Students Can’t Pay Their Loans. Great Idea.”
Jennifer Schaffer, “What Would Happen If We ALL Stopped Paying Our Student Loans, Together?”
“One of the Kipnis Complainants Speaks Out.”
Charles Green, “Fear? Not Really.”
Koritha Mitchell, “I’m a Professor. My colleagues Who Let Their Students Dictate What They Teach Are Cowards.”
Sarah Brown, “In Heated State-Budget Fights, Students Strive to Be Heard.”
Kelly Field, “Plan to Forgive Corinthian Students’ Loans Offers Hope to Other Borrowers.”
Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist, “Midcareer Melancholy.”
John Waters, “Go Out in the World and Fuck It Up Beautifully.”
Stacey Patton, “Rachel Dolezal Case Leaves a Campus Bewildered and Some Scholars Disgusted.”
And Karen Kelsky, “How to Tailor Your Online Image [for the Academic Job Market].” Oops.
Pittsburgh
“Pittsburgh Labor Board Finds in Favor of Duquesne Adjuncts.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 