By: John Hilgart

John Hilgart on a panel from BLACK MAGIC (1952)

By: James Parker

The Ballad of Cocky the Fox: Fit the Twentieth!

By: Peggy Nelson

His irrepressible optimism and perseverance outlasted his era.

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn your scarlet letter.

By: Tom Nealon

Barbecue sauce doesn’t exist — but barbecue?

By: Joe Alterio

“The Libyan student sank like a stone.”

By: Peggy Nelson

At play in the fields of the word.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939)

By: Matthew Battles

We must imagine the plastic bag is happy.

By: Joe Alterio

Confidential memo from the US Embassy in Cairo.

By: Annie Nocenti

Haiti doesn’t let people turn into ever-cranking machines.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from GOODFELLAS (1990)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from DISTRICT 9 (2009)

By: Joe Alterio

In Panama, smuggled cash is laundered at the airport.

By: Joshua Glenn

He began as a critic of Middlebrow, but was suborned by it.