The Case Against Cats
Are you a cat person or a bird person? Colin Dickey reviews Peter P. Marra and Chris Santella’s “Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Deadly...
Are you a cat person or a bird person? Colin Dickey reviews Peter P. Marra and Chris Santella’s “Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Deadly...
In 1955, UFO researcher Morris K. Jessup claimed to have received a letter from a man calling himself Carlos Allende, pointing him to an experiment...
In 1955, UFO researcher Morris K. Jessup claimed to have received a letter from a man calling himself Carlos Allende, pointing him to an experiment...
Colin Dayan's book "With Dogs at the Edge of Life" attempts to mark out the territory of dogs in our lives.
"Much of Didion's writing about LA reads not as accurate description of the city but as penance for her great sin of leaving New York."
Anyone tempted to believe that the history of human thought tends toward progress is well advised to consider the long-running, endlessly circular...
A review of Kate Brown's "Dispatches from Dystopia," which tells stories of Chernobyl and other corrupted, polluted areas.
A new biography on Walter Benjamin lays out his major works as part of an evolution of thought.
Triptych image: A fresco detail of Hell from the medieval church St. Nicolas in Raduil Village, Bulgaria, Anton Lefterov IN APRIL 2013, Italian...
SOME YEARS AGO, I found myself stranded at a corporate seminar, ensconced in a frigid hotel conference room, eyes glazing through PowerPoint...
IT WAS IN NOVEMBER of 1565 that Nicole Obry of Vervins, France, first became possessed. Sixteen-years-old, recently married, and illiterate, she had...
IN 1460, ONE OF MANY book-hunting monks in the employ of the great Cosimo de Medici returned to Florence from a monastery in Macedonia with a nearly...