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| The Timbuktu Europe dreamed of, in an illustration we made for this story. No such city ever stood in the Sahara. |
Timbuctu. Everyone can say the name. Almost no one has been. Plenty of people aren’t sure it exists at all. It was the place where you had either just crossed the Sahara, or still had all of it in front of you. How a city of books became the edge of the world
I enjoyed reading this interactive article on fashion stylist Grace Coddington’s home in East Hampton. It reminds me of the old house we lived in for almost 4 decades that we’d packed to the brim with books and paintings and interesting bits of junk.
Mammogram or Tenth-Grade Boyfriend?
When I was young sex sold margarine Via Memo Of The Air
Tips on how we can make our pals pee themselves a little bit as Halloween creeps up on us. Link
This is your fridge speaking, u fat pig: Smart homes and domestic tech hellscapes. Via Things Magazine
Bogcore: The literary genre you didn’t know you needed
Her father had Alzheimers. Working with him to complete his unfinished memoir gave them a new way to connect. NYT Gift Link
26 Gifts for people who lose everything except their phone
Kooler: A resource for cocktail lovers. I most often have a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned in winter or a G&T in summer because I always have the ingredients but there are a few here that I would like to suck back. Via Webcurios
Cartographers of North Korea For a country that is closed to the internet, the quality of OSM data in North Korea is extraordinary: 324,415 data points drawn by 889 contributors since 2007. Via TMN
Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America This is when I came of age. It was liberating and exhilarating and a wonderful time to be alive. It saddens me to see the hard-won gains made during that period being rolled back.
Let a nuclear explosion light up your day.
Photos of Gaza in 2023 and 2026 More than 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its war on the besieged enclave in October 2023, turning whole neighbourhoods into rubble and wiping out much of its infrastructure.
Police wash their hands of severed arms case
The Blingpire Strikes Back: The architectural atrocities that will be Trump’s legacy. Via Things Magazine
Why were Victorian elites so effective? Could it be because they got up late, drank a lot, and spent a remarkable share of their waking hours partying? Via Webcurios
“Graham came as a gift from the treetops, one that might never have occurred, and I came to feel love for him.” Read this truly lovely story at Literary Hub
The “my dad was a hoarder” sale Via Tacky Raccoons
It’s the season for comfort food and when this arrived in my mailbox I knew I had to make it. I think tonight might be the night. NYT gift link
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