If OL’ DIRTY BASTARD’s (Russell Tyrone Jones, 1968-2004) madness was a tumor pressing on his genius and making it dance, it also caused him...

Perhaps the most prolific cartoonist ever for the high-middlebrow/nobrow New Yorker, and creator of the story that inspired the quatsch film Shrek, WILLIAM STEIG...

In the New Yorker’s “Current Cinema” column this week, David Denby offer a quick and compelling appraisal of Richard Kelly’s new film, The Box....

*** Eighth in an occasional series.

GEORGE V. HIGGINS (1939-99) is usually remembered for his 1972 novel, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. It was his first outing, and its unglamorous...

He invented cultural criticism.

Robot: “Green, Tree, Ocean” — by D. Emory Allen *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange...

The Guardian’s Alastair Harper offers a paean to the voices of the Great War— the first European war, as has been observed from many...