I’m thrilled to announce the Significant Objects Story Contest. In partnership with the editors of Slate, Rob Walker and I (who are running an...

Buster Keaton begat two great cinematic heirs, both of whom embraced the elaborately set-up visual gag: Jackie Chan and JACQUES TATI (1907-82). Like so...

Monster: “Spicy, Green, Outgoing” — by Joe Alterio *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for...

Alia, a telepathic four-year-old girl who, in the bestselling science fiction novel of all time, roams the battlefields of Arrakis slitting the throats of...

I asked you to describe the ideal book, one that would save the publishing world and the public sphere in one stroke. And with...

"Don’t waste time in mourning. Organize.”

From John Holbo’s Pulp Mystery photostream on Flickr. *** Second in an occasional series.

THOR HEYERDAHL (1914–2002) lived a long life, but so much was left undone: he might have piloted an ice floe from Porvoo to Hokkaido...