By: Joshua Glenn

Utopia Minus X (1966), by Rex Gordon

By: Joshua Glenn

Athletic eggheads!

By: Joshua Glenn

Warrant for X (1945), by Philip MacDonald.

By: Matthew Battles

If books are architecture, then illustration can be street art, too.

By: Andrea Pitzer

A champion fighter who defied our sentimental unease.

By: Joshua Glenn

Her hair was long, her foot was light,/And her eyes were wild.

By: Joshua Glenn

The X Factor (1965), by Andre Norton.

By: Joshua Glenn

The Tragedy of X (1941), by Ellery Queen.

By: Joshua Glenn

Fritz Leiber’s SF satire The Silver Eggheads first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. In it, he imagined a future world in which books — cranked out at the rate […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The Big X (1959), by Hank Searls.

By: Joshua Glenn

The Game of X (1965), by Robert Sheckley.

By: Andrew Sempere

Chicago is semi-porous: even now you can traverse the layers and see the bones where the roads hit the water.

By: Joshua Glenn

Venus Plus X (1960), by Theodore Sturgeon.

By: Joshua Glenn

Why were eggheads associated with sex at midcentury?

By: Andrew Sempere

Telekinesis may rattle the flatware, electricity washes your dishes.