More on the new Blur movie in our long chat with its maker, Toby L: thestopgap.net/like-a-startin…

The New York Times Books section has some work to do. With thanks to Maris Kreizman thestopgap.net/the-new-york-t…

Pride and joy x.com/daniel_m_laver…

If The Dragons Have to Fight Make Their Distress Sounds Less Distressing thestopgap.net/make-the-drago…

It’s been fifteen years since Bitcoin launched and my eighty-one-year-old uncle brags to me about how much Ethereum he’s got in cold storage. thestopgap.net/the-noun-block…

Did you know that Dr. Andrew Weil once convinced Rick Rubin not to remove his infected appendix? The Performed Humility of Rick Rubin, by Nicholas Russell thestopgap.net/the-performed-…

Today I went through a serious trial. A trial many will recognize, I think—that of having forgotten the fucking title to a book that has been lodged in your mind all year. thestopgap.net/alpine-menace/

*A great blasting of brass* It's Friday Crossword XIX: Superconductor (plus bball crossie answers and winners) thestopgap.net/friday-crosswo…

These are the kin of that most blessed spider who, during hijra from Mecca to Medina, saved the life of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Abu Bakr al Siddiq (Allah be pleased with him). Tuesday Obituary: Daddy Long-Legs thestopgap.net/tuesday-daddyl…

Salieri serving kunst thestopgap.net/friday-crosswo…

The blade you have in hand cannot kill men Remember that are no ills in God’s sphere From Sahar Tavakoli's November obituary for "all direction," amid protests in Milan. thestopgap.net/tuesday-obitua…

An astounding interview at The Stopgap with QUEER PALESTINE contributor Intifaga (He/Him), who spoke with two queer Gazans every day for three months of the genocide: thestopgap.net/i-called-him-m…

“He was estranged from his mother and his brother. They hadn't spoken in years because he was queer and they kicked him out. But then he found out that they were alive and he was adamant on trying to get them to escape, too.” —Intifaga (He/Him). thestopgap.net/i-called-him-m…

He eventually found himself migrating south with everybody because of evacuation orders. He found a tent. He was very suspicious because he was a young single male. And also getting him out was very hard because he was a single male. thestopgap.net/i-called-him-m…

“A look like a cup mushroom in the earth at village” Ranking The Wikimedia Captions For Pictures of Mushrooms thestopgap.net/ranking-the-wi…

SO NOW WERE GETTING FURTHER INTO HELL, good Virgil said. NEXT UP IS THE WORST EVER BEACH YOU SAW. BUT TAKE YOUR TIME FOR NOW AND LOOK AROUND. The decorated translator Daniel M. Lavery returns with Dante's Inferno, Canto XIII thestopgap.net/dantes-inferno…

Good Riddance Summer, Hello Blog Autumn thestopgap.net/goodbye-dreadf…