Lamenting the Obsolescence of the DVD and Its Distinctive Viewing Practices

It is hard to distinguish what Chinese gamers truly want, and what the industry, or the Chinese Communist party, has decided for them...

There are two competing perspectives about the cause of the opioid explosion, and they lead to different policy prescriptions...

Humble dwellings like the Camargue huts invite us to tell a different kind of story about human-environment relationships, one less focused on human beings’ mastery of nature...

Who or what is Peter Pan? Peter stands for a deep psychological desire in all of us to return to childhood and escape into an earlier, freer state of being...

The Doom of the Great City imagines the entire population of London choked to death under a soot-filled fog. The story is told by the event’s lone survivor sixty years later...

Colonizationism was not merely a part of the debate over wartime emancipation but rather reflected the United States’ race-based imperial ambitions...

You cannot understand this building’s purpose, but you  know that you have just encountered a poetic even mythic work of architecture...

Don’t we go to literature to find the logic that might displace the absurdity of our lives?

The Democratic Party has been pulled far enough left that even lots of non-crazy people find us just plain scary...

When it comes to matters of the courtroom, some cases are surely easier to empathise with than others. A sketch artist may have a personal connection to the plight of the accused or accuser...

I decided to ask my six-year-old son what he thought money was. “Gold,” came the confident answer. It turns out that he was thinking of pound coins...

Many SETI scientists now agree with UFOers that the first alien detection plausibly could occur within our own solar system...

The first person to be photographed was a man having his boots cleaned. There were others in the same street, but they moved and became invisible...

That nothing is told about her characters’ histories is a reminder of the fracturing effect of migration, so violently rupturing that it’s often likened to a kind of reincarnation rather than any linear progression through life...

This essay considers some reasons for lyric’s return in black British poetics by first taking a broad look at the field, and then by attending to the work of several poets writing since the 1990s but publishing most visibly since the millennium...

I miss many aspects of my chaplaincy training: the deep listening that can blossom in the most unexpected of circumstances, the twinning of action and reflection...

Was Walter Benjamin correct in suggesting a relationship between art and fascism?

It is commonly said, even by the English themselves, that English cooking is the worst in the world. Now that is simply not true...