Mr. Saturday… Bring me a Saturday… Make it the Saturday that Saturday Saturday
It’s happened again. The vile depredations of the week are over, and the angelic choir known as Saturday spreads joy over the land. Welcome. We’ve missed you. Here at MobyLives, we’ve… Read more »
Everything you ever wanted to know about teens, emoji, and heiroglyphs
Some people use emoji. Some people do not use emoji. Some people, when they use emoji, use them to ask a partner or friend whether they should eat pizza for… Read more »
Don’t be daunted by Amazon, says James Daunt
The age of Amazon undeniably marks the end of bookselling as we’ve long known it. As we’ve mentioned in the past, the online retailer’s recent forays into the world of… Read more »
The Voynich manuscript may have been the prescription pad of a Jewish doctor with loony handwriting, according to one scholar
Because of our strong conviction that excellent shit should be written about on the internet, MobyLives has many times covered the Voynich manuscript, often described as the world’s most mysterious book, and probably… Read more »
Celebrate the 110th birthday of Robert A. Heinlein with a look at some of the movies his books inspired
Today marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein, author of such beloved novels as Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, and… Read more »
Happiness
Wittgenstein Jr
Contraband Cocktails
What We Do Now
A History of Money
The Art of the Novella subscription + Referral Rewards!
Billy Budd, Sailor
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
Revenge
Trainwreck
We, Robots
The Dead
Ada’s Algorithm
James Baldwin: The Last Interview
The Utopia of Rules
An Exaggerated Murder
Melancholy Accidents
The Quest for a Moral Compass
The Damned Utd
The Jane Austen Rules
Bartleby the Scrivener
Red or Dead
Spurious, Dogma, & Exodus
The Constitution Demands It
Future Days
How to Do Nothing
The Duke’s Table
The Dog Walker
Why I Am Not a Feminist
Sophia
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview
Gnarr!
“I Would Prefer Not To” Bartleby Tote Bag
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview
The North of God
The Ghost Network
The Dunwich Horror
The Buenos Aires Quintet
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview
Bernie goes to the Vatican Bundle
The Establishment
Cat Out of Hell
La Femme de Gilles
Half The Kingdom
Not on Fire, But Burning
The Dark Net
Bartleby Mug
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
The Essential Heinrich Böll
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview
The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
Patience and Fortitude
Rules for Werewolves
Bolaño
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (Gift Edition)
The Philosophy of Beards
The Next Next Level
The Weirdness
