san francisco The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, 2017 documentary about 'Tales of the City' creator Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids The Man Who Knew Too Much! Why China murdered its own ambassador, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

creativity How a children's book about a mouse is keeping me motivated in quarantine Thom Dunn

Gadgets Your barista may be at home, but that doesn’t mean your coffee game should suffer Boing Boing's Shop

books All of Me is Illustrated celebrates the Ray Bradbury Centennial with a 21st Century take on "The Illustrated Man" Matt Maranian

happy mutants Coming soon to a city near you: HUMP, Dan Savage's amateur smut fest, banned from Facebook! Cory Doctorow

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

Disney The case for breaking up Disney Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow

science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow

uk The Oliver Twist workhouse is becoming a block of luxury flats with a "poor door" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

fake news Quantum mechanics and Kevin Spacey, JFK’s five assassins, and proof of reincarnation, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

art Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, RIP David Pescovitz

china In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding Cory Doctorow

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

Science After On Podcast #2:  Video Games as Medicine? Rob Reid

Southern Reach Trilogy The Strange Bird – an excerpt from Jeff VanderMeer's new Borne story Jeff VanderMeer

happy mutants New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson dreams vivid about weathering climate crisis Cory Doctorow