In 1996, Harper’s published a long piece by David Foster Wallace called Shipping Out, in which Wallace, a decidedly non-luxury cruise person, goes on a week-long luxury cruise in the Caribbean.

Harper’s published a long piece by David Foster Wallace called Shipping Out, in which Wallace, a decidedly non-luxu ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band, Talking Heads have released a new music video for their iconic 1977 single, ...

Ok, having been all over the western Mediterranean for the past two weeks, I’m back. *sigh* Here, without comment or context ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson is now doing visual versions of her daily newsletter on YouTube. Yesterday’s video explai ...

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my fa ...

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Speaking of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, animator Chuck Jones and his team were said to follow these simple rules when creating the cartoons: The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by ...

This is a map of how people in different geographic regions of the US refer to athletic footwear, courtesy of Josh Katz, author of Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk and co-creator ...

I realize how it sounds, but I’m going to say it anyway because it’s the truth. When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I fell in love. Here’s how I described the experience in a 2016 post ...