Hydronuclear Men

Men In The Off Hours

Fernanda Eberstadt | European Review Of Books | 1st May 2025

Bearing the subtitle "on Impressionist butts", this review of a Gustave Caillebotte exhibition considers the development of the vulnerable male nude in art history. "It’s this stout indifference to male-female divisions that makes Caillebotte such a provocative artist — one who chooses to depict grumpy-looking young ladies reading the newspaper, and naked workmen toweling off after a bath" (2,600 words)

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Hydronuclear Testing

J. B. Crawford | Computers Are Bad | 19th June 2025

Between 1959 and 1961, hydronuclear testing took place in "Technical Area 49" of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This technique involved drilling deep wells, installing the test device (which had most of the nuclear material removed; just the explosive mechanism was under scrutiny), backfilling the hole and then detonating. "The plutonium and uranium is just down there, and it'll have to stay" (3,100 words)