A cold blooded, merciless, professional killer that would make even Superman soil his tights invaded this year’s Comic-Con. As we’ve previously noted, the ruthless antihero
A central issue for many photographers is the peculiar way in which the presence of a camera affects the phenomenon being observed—especially when human subjects
Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski posted a slide-show essay last week on the history and future of airport design. Airports, he begins, started out as
This month has been the coldest July in Chicago in 42 years. The temperature—the average reading hovers below 78 degrees—has failed to reach 90 degrees
Harrisburg Pennsylvania’s WITF-FM aired a show today provocatively titled Farewell Publishing as part of a series of programs focusing on how the digital revolution is
Earlier this month at the Brookings Institution, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan talked with former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros about the challenges posed
The NYT published a story today about a new sign of hope for the peaceful co-habitation of the West Bank coming from a group of
Donald Westlake, the mystery author who wrote under numerous pseudonyms, including Richard Stark, has been everywhere in the book pages this week. To make sense
From Freud, to Joyce, to Hilda Doolittle, and Robert Graves, many of the twentieth-century’s most influential artists and intellectuals have, through their work, demonstrated an