By: Stephanie Burt

FEIJOA — the not-this-but-the-other-and-then fruit.

By: Amy Thielen

BINGO: “That’s a good bingo on coverall… at Ice Cracking!”

By: Dan Fox

JULIA DAVIS — a genius at passive-agressive comedy.

By: Roxane Gay

AUTOMATED CAR WASH — nothing to do, nowhere to go.

By: Jason Grote

CZECH CINEMA — don’t sleep on it.

By: Mimi Lipson

The all-but-forgotten joys of TRASH PICKING.

By: Joe Alterio

TABLETOP WARGAMING — a crash-course in late-stage modern life.

By: Chris Spurgeon

THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT — ignorance is bliss. But why?

By: Brian Berger

MEDIUM COOL — a film dense with action, allusion and invention.

By: Adam McGovern

THE SPACE GIANTS — now that’s family entertainment.

By: Jessamyn West

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM — as good as America gets.

By: James Hannaham

HABIT PATTERNS — a 1954 behavioral corrective film.

By: John Overholt

The fuzzy, irregular, magical deckle edge.

By: Robert Wringham

STEVEN UNIVERSE — exciting, hilarious, moving, glamorous, inclusive, and kind.

By: John Hilgart

MAKING GRATEFUL DEAD ALBUMS — in a parallel universe.