By: Joshua Glenn

Stephen Dedalus’ broadtoed boots — from Ulysses.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

By: Joshua Glenn

Or is it “Plastic Man”?

By: Joshua Glenn

Definitive proof of Jack Kirby’s Radium-Age sci-fi and fantasy influences!

By: Joshua Glenn

Are you synec­dochical enough to watch Star­ship Troopers?

By: Joshua Glenn

On which actor did Ditko base Doctor Strange’s vibe?

By: Joshua Glenn

Boston rock is about one thing only: stalking smart chicks.

By: James Parker

I had just removed his hand — gently, I hope — from my knee when the man in the off-white linen suit told me that he was the one who recruited Bob Dylan into the […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Skrulls hiding in great works of literature

By: Joshua Glenn

Moses was obsessed with micro­organisms like yeast… because God is an alien.

By: Joshua Glenn

The most dangerous game?

By: Joshua Glenn

The secret origins of Generation Y

By: Joshua Glenn

Nope! A century-old literary mystery, solved.

By: Joshua Glenn

Psyche­delic revel­ations about the arti­ficial nature of reality

By: Joshua Glenn

“Once I was an alchemist named Alec, of Holland”