Julian Dibbell, anthropologist of the tribes of technology, has written an entertaining and useful consideration of kittens. Specifically, he’s writing about the viral video...

… every once in a while. In the magazine’s annual Best of New York issue, Ethan Lipton And His Orchestra were named Best Lounge...

Seinfeldian irony avant la lettre

This morning I read Tom Sharpe’s 1976 campus novel, Wilt, because an AbeBooks survey of British readers named it one of the 10 funniest...

Harry Houdini was not only the storied illusionist of memory; in his time he was famous as a debunker of mediums and psychics and...

Wong Fei Hung (played by the great Kwan Tak Hing) gives Master Ko a writing lesson. From The Magnificent Butcher (1979), directed by Sammo...

We’d like to think the L and the B signify Low Brow. But they more likely represent the initials of engraver M. Lucas Brunn,...

Among the photos making the social-media rounds in the aftermath of the Turkish Airlines crash in Amsterdam yesterday was this haunting image: It was...