Essentially Public An interview with artist Peter Haakon Thompson where we talk about icebergs and fishing houses, and a gallery of new photographs about being alone.

Peanut: Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) You can have a successful career in your thirties and still pretend you’re 18, carousing at clubs and sleeping on a futon. But to have a baby at the same time? Danny Gregory continues the Peanut with a new installment on adulthood.

An Extremely Incomplete Taxonomy of Cinematic New Yorks New York has faced the apocalypse many times. Unfortunately, it’s usually Bruce Willis who saves us. Paul Ford reports on the many versions of the five boroughs produced in film, and why Nora Ephron lives alone.

Mena G. Trott Five questions for Movable Type creator and Web designer Mena G. Trott.