You’re Wrong About: Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman
Our survival correspondent Blair Braverman is here to tell us the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. Of the 45…
The Public Hating
Originally published in 1955 in by Steve Allen as part of The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories. Reprinted here as a commentary on the tone and rhetoric of…
“You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker
“Oh, I’m great,” he said. “Corking, I am. Know what time I got up? Four o’clock this afternoon, sharp. I kept trying to make it, and every time I took…
The Pedestrian
Back in 1952, the great American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury published a short story called “The Pedestrian” in a small antifascist publication. The story, which was based on Bradbury’s…
Why You Should Watch The NeverEnding Story as an Adult
The NeverEnding Story was a classic children’s fantasy of the 1980s, right up there with The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Legend, and The Last Unicorn in creating a latticework of terrifying…
Confession of a Feminist
A serialized biography of Jane Grant (1892-1972), first woman reporter at The New York Times and co-founder of The New Yorker {read}
A New Leaf (1971)
women aren't funny, they're hilarious
The Cold War
World War 3
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba
They got knocked down. Did they ever get back up again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZr87g6rNo