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Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble
Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him into the...
What’s the Deal with U.F.O.s?
I ran these notions by Arlan Andrews, a retired mechanical engineer and author who is the founder and director of SIGMA, a think tank of sci-fi writers that advises...
The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy
In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the well-tailored suits of Italy’s economic boom, between nostalgia...
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
And when you saw it later, how’d you feel?Well, that’s something, going back to what we were talking about before: I think everybody uses fashion in different ways, and,...
Why Hawkefest Will Be The Marketing Event of the Year
We’ve all attended numerous marketing conferences over the years—some good, some forgettable, and a rare few that genuinely changed the trajectory of business. But something different is brewing with...
“Erupcja” Starts Charli XCX’s Acting Career on a High Note
One of the key works of the modern cinema, Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage to Italy,” from 1954—starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as a British couple whose travels around Naples...
The Impossible Becomes Possible: My Millennium Wave
The Millennium Wave in Tahiti stands as a monument to what many consider impossible. This famous wave, which I rode in February, marked a turning point in my life—a...
Reëxamining the American Dream in “The Last Carnival”
Watch “The Last Carnival.” Away from the rides and games of a busy fairground is another world. A group of men, immigrants who work at the carnival, live together...