By: Adrienne Crew

THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP

By: Annalee Newitz

ROBIN HOOD & THE MERRY PALS

By: Jennifer Krasinski

WATERSHIP DOWN RABBITS

By: Robert Wringham

The Home Guard from DAD’S ARMY

By: Gordon Dahlquist

BOWIE’S BAND, 1976–1980

By: Alice Boone

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS

By: Annie Nocenti

THE WILD BUNCH — we can relate to becoming obsolete in your own lifetime.

By: Stephanie Burt

FEIJOA — the not-this-but-the-other-and-then fruit.

By: Amy Thielen

BINGO: “That’s a good bingo on coverall… at Ice Cracking!”

By: Dan Fox

JULIA DAVIS — a genius at passive-agressive comedy.

By: Roxane Gay

AUTOMATED CAR WASH — nothing to do, nowhere to go.

By: Jason Grote

CZECH CINEMA — don’t sleep on it.

By: Mimi Lipson

The all-but-forgotten joys of TRASH PICKING.

By: Joe Alterio

TABLETOP WARGAMING — a crash-course in late-stage modern life.

By: Chris Spurgeon

THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT — ignorance is bliss. But why?