Steven Watson

Boot

May 1, 2026

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8 min read

Ghosts in the Machine

The quiet torment of typing

Steven Watson

La Cuenta

Apr 28, 2026

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4 min read

One Terrifying Moment

Reclaiming and recognizing our power through storytelling

Steven Watson

Real Review

Apr 24, 2026

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6 min read

The Crisis of Knowing

Astrology and understanding the world

Steven Watson

The Drift

Apr 21, 2026

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4 min read

Voraciousness and Shame

Ozempic’s weight loss counterrevolution

Steven Watson

New Papers

Apr 17, 2026

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5 min read

Fieldwork

Maybe we need to get fatter?

Steven Watson

Elastic

Apr 14, 2026

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15 min read

Five Attempts

The dog is not allowed on that couch

Steven Watson

Heartbeat

Apr 2, 2026

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8 min read

From Ear to Eternity

A personal history of hearing aids

Steven Watson

Mnemotope

Mar 31, 2026

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5 min read

My Friends' Old Dogs

On being a teenager, and growing up

Steven Watson

Mizna

Mar 27, 2026

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12 min read

Taxes or Paperwork

"Even when escaping death, paperwork remains"

Steven Watson

The Fence

Mar 24, 2026

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10 min read

A Failure to Convalesce

One writer with Long COVID is attempting to recover – furiously

Steven Watson

Vestoj

Mar 20, 2026

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16 min read

Forever in Blue Jeans

An anthropologist considers your favourite pair of jeans

Steven Watson

The Believer

Mar 17, 2026

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16 min read

Bola Cheia

Searching for cultural inheritance at the COPA Soccer Training Center in Walnut Creek, California

Steven Watson

Pencil Magazine

Mar 13, 2026

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3 min read

This Will All Be Ocean

Picturing a landscape as it's slowly erased

Steven Watson

Dispatch

Mar 10, 2026

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15 min read

The Warhammer Capital of the World

From coal mines to Games Workshop

Steven Watson

The Story

A Heartbreaking Myth of Effortless Genius

Mar 6, 2026

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11 min read

A Heartbreaking Myth of Effortless Genius

The divinely inspired artist in the age of TikTok

Steven Watson

Hearing Things

Do I Really Have to Care About AI Music Now?

Mar 3, 2026

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15 min read

Do I Really Have to Care About AI Music Now?

Thoughts on what – if anything – generative AI could bring to the future of music

Steven Watson

Mildew

Feb 27, 2026

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6 min read

Loose Ends

Finishing the craft projects that loved ones leave behind

Steven Watson

Delayed Gratification

Feb 24, 2026

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10 min read

Korea Criminals

The North Korean hackers who pulled off the world’s biggest heist

Steven Watson

Die Quieter Please

Feb 20, 2026

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9 min read

My Home

A leaky ceiling, and a surreal nightmare of 21st-century Britain

Steven Watson

Somesuch Stories

Feb 17, 2026

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38 min read

How Much is a Lot?

Post-pandemic horror to make you cringe as well as wince

Steven Watson

Scary Boots

Feb 13, 2026

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6 min read

Complicated Vistas

Addiction and dreams and finding light in the darkness

Steven Watson

Serviette

Feb 10, 2026

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8 min read

Stick Figures

How a Shang Dynasty utensil became ruler of our takeout drawers

Steven Watson

Mushroom People

Feb 6, 2026

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6 min read

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

French pharmacists are the champignons of mushroom identification

Steven Watson

Emergence Magazine

Feb 1, 2026

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18 min read

In search of Theia

A story about the Moon, the Earth, and us

Steven Watson

Pit

Jan 30, 2026

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12 min read

The Life of a Human Guinea Pig

A tour of America's institutional meals

Steven Watson

Steven Watson

Ghosts in the Machine

One Terrifying Moment

The Crisis of Knowing

Voraciousness and Shame​

Fieldwork

Five Attempts

From Ear to Eternity

My Friends' Old Dogs

Taxes or Paperwork

A Failure to Convalesce

Forever in Blue Jeans

Bola Cheia

This Will All Be Ocean

The Warhammer Capital of the World

A Heartbreaking Myth of Effortless Genius

Do I Really Have to Care About AI Music Now?

Loose Ends

Korea Criminals

My Home

How Much is a Lot?

Complicated Vistas

Stick Figures

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

In search of Theia

The Life of a Human Guinea Pig

The Mortar

Voraciousness and Shame