For a couple years now, I’ve been scraping dozens of lists each year to see what bubbles to the top of various publications’ “Best Fiction of the Year” lists (here’s 2021's). Earlier this year, some friends and I started a podcast where we all read a YA book and then…

Happy New Year! Time for me to scrape the internet for as many “Best of 2021” lists as I can find, pull them all together, and make some graphs. …

Every December, hundreds of publications create “best of” lists for the year: the best books, movies, music, and more. Occasionally these lists are data-driven (popular, aggregate reviews), but more often, they’re subjective: “Books we couldn’t put down,” “Our editors’ favorites,” and so on. …

I’ve recently been scraping the web for top book lists in an attempt to identify which books pop up on multiple lists of “Best books in 2019”. From 48 sources (listed below), here are the top 20: To dive a little deeper, below is my first pass at an…

On January 2, 2020, ContraPoints, having been recently “canceled” on Twitter, published a video about canceling. It’s an hour and forty minutes long, and while I think it’s one of the most nuanced analyses of anything I’ve encountered in awhile, it’s the length of a feature film, is largely about…

Happy January! ’Tis the season of resolutions. I’ve been pretty obsessive and reflective about keeping mine the past few years, albeit by a different name, and I’ve shared with a few interested friends every year. …