Media
Podcasts, essays, articles, and other media recommendations.
podcasts
Podcasts from different genres. Links lead to Spotify.
MEDICINE/SCIENCE
- This Podcast Will Kill You | Tackles different diseases’ histories, biologies, and how scared people need to be.
- Green Dreamer | On ecological regeneration and intersectional sustainability.
- Sustainababble | A comedy podcast about the environment.
- Oologies with Alie Ward | Comedic science podcast.
PHILOSOPHY/LIFE
- Modern Love | Actors reading and performing true stories of love, loss, and redemption.
- Philosophize This! | Podcast dedicated to sharing the ideas that shaped our world.
- The Lonely Hour | A podcast that talks openly in hopes of both de-stigmatizing loneliness and underscoring the joys of solitude.
- Not Built For Us | Audio essays on the intersections of medicine, structure, & the marginalized.
- 99% Invisible | About all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about—the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.
- The Problem with Charles and Casey | Deep conversations about every aspect of existence.
POP CULTURE
- Reply All | A podcast about the internet and an exploration of modern life and how to survive it.
- DUNZO! | Podcast about celebrity relationships.
- Dissect | A serialized music podcast that examines a single album per season, one song per episode.
FICTION/DRAMA
- The No Sleep Podcast | Anthology of horror stories.
- Limetown | Fictional mystery podcast about the disappearance of an entire town.
- The Black Tapes | Fictional docudrama about a journalist’s search for truth and the paranormal occurrences that happen during it.
TRUE CRIME
- Criminal | Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
- Rotten Mango | A mukbang Youtuber’s gruesome true crime podcast.
essays and articles
Essays and articles for reading.
INSPIRATIONAL
- My Mother’s Garden
- What the caves are trying to tell us
- On running after one’s hat
- Tending Soil by Emma Marris
- How to Stop Crying by Heather Christle
- 'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope
- The 6,000-Year History of Blue Pigments in Art
- Blank Slate: Spiritual Emptiness Is Clearing Our Closets
- The Glass Essay by Anne Carson
- Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
- Hanging on the Telephone
JOURNALISTIC
- ‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency
- Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?
- Costco is going to extremes to keep its rotisserie chickens at $4.99
- See Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching From Above
- Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race
- Why is the NRA so powerful politically? Money, Of Course
- Where Have Japan’s Yakuza Gone?
- Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
MISCELLANEOUS
video essays
Watch some video essays. Mostly Youtube links.
- High School Blitz Interview with Apollos Hester
- Rives: The Museum of Four in the Morning (TED Talk)
- Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Pretty
- Turning old jewelry into pure gold bars
- Why the Music in the Live Action Disney Remakes is Worse than you Thought
- The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
- Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
- Cooking Food On The Internet For Fun And Profit
- Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
- How urban spaces can preserve history and built community (TED Talk)
- How to Build Mirror Shields for Standing Rock Water Protectors
- Uncertainty Seminars—Group Therapy
- 10 Bullets by Tom Sachs
- How Not to be Seen: A F*cking Didactic .MOV File
- Hard Worldbuilding vs. Soft Worldbuilding | A Study of Studio Ghibli
- Whose Migrant Mother was this?
- Bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political
- David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh
- how we failed megan fox 🆘🎬🍿
- EXPLAINED: Mariah Carey's Voice
- Why this font is everywhere
book recommendations by genre
Can't decide on the next read? Try out one of these, or this Recommend Me a Book website!
movie recommendations by genre
Movie night line-up options!
literature and poetry magazines
A list of accessible literature and/or poetry mags.
- The New Yorker
- The White Review
- The Indianapolis Review
- Alegrarse Journal
- Nashville Review
- The American Poetry Review
- The Baffler
- The Puritan
- Guernica Magazine
- The Felt
- The Offing
- Winter Tangerine
- Black Warrior Review
- The DIAGRAM
- ANMLY
- Tinderbox Poetry
- The Auburn Avenue
- Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- The Rumpus
- Cosmonauts Avenue
- Wildness Magazine
- Triangle House
- Poetry Northwest
- Blackbird
- The Pinch Journal
- Four Way Review
- Scoundrel Time
- Lunch Ticket
- Thrush Poetry Journal
- Sixth Finch
- Duende Magazine
- The Brooklyn Rail
- Southeast Review
- Burning House Press
- Quarterly West
- New Delta Review
- Literary Hub
- AGNI
- Vinyl Magazine
- The Poetry Society
- Puerto del Sol
- Kenyon Review
- Parenthesis Journal
- The Boiler Magazine
- Washington Square Review
- New England Review
- Columbia Journal
- Gigantic Sequins
- Entropy Magazine
- Whale Road Review
- Kissing Dynamite
- Yalobusha Review
- Harana Poetry
- Passages North
- The Threepenny Review
- Split this Rock
- Poetry Daily
- Poetry Society of America
- Griffin Poetry Society’s Poem of the Week
- Poem-a-Day
- Academy of American Poets
- Poetry Foundation
- The Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week
- Vandal Poem of the Day
- Poem of the Day