I have a battered old volume that I found in the used bookstore near the college. It's called Little Folk of Many Lands and it's immensely racist but full of good will. I think...
Jon Stewart was talking about autism the other night. His guest was the writer David Mitchell, who had helped translate a memoir by a 13-year-old boy suffering from autism....
My great-uncle wrote detective novels about Mr. Emanuel E. Rothschild, the self-described â??poorest but most amiable of the Rothschilds,â? a stout and beaming â??confidential...
Jack Kirby invented or co-invented most of the characters you see in those movies about Marvel superheroes. He thought them up as he drew, and he created so many of them because he...
When you're old enough and have wasted enough time, you can look at a sketch on Saturday Night Live and realize something about life. The show has been on so long it has the same...
Dear Sirs: Mr. Stephen Fry takes four and a half minutes to tell people they shouldn't fuss about disinterested versus indifferent, fewer versus less, actioning versus doing, or...
Nowadays Eppinger told the story of how they wanted to call it “Galactic Central.” Typical network. First off, it wasn’t at the center of anything. It was at the...
One day the members of the Clash were playing football. The group's chief flunky took the chance to size up their personalities. Here's his view of Joe Strummer, the Clash's front...
Nowadays we don't hear too much from Elizabeth Wurtzel, but she just shot a stream of poetry out of her throat at The Atlantic. She looks so young, she says. “When I told a...
