By: Tom Nealon

The Venn Platter explains the culinary world.

By: Tom Nealon

Umami is the savory opium of the people.

By: Joshua Glenn

Alfred Lambert’s prehistoric golf shoes — from The Corrections.

By: Tom Nealon

Tom Nealon’s Foucauldian-condimental history of the West.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

By: Erik Davis

In his sunken city, the dead cutie-pie lies dreaming.

By: Joshua Glenn

Skrulls hiding in great works of literature

By: Joshua Glenn

Nope! A century-old literary mystery, solved.

By: Matthew Battles

1 …Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Teenage mutants…

By: Joshua Glenn

Nietzsche’s lonely­hearts ads went unanswered…

By: Joshua Glenn

An abridged version of this essay appeared in the journal n+1 (Winter 2007). PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE I set out to commemorate the heroes of old who sailed the good ship […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Psyche­delic revel­ations about the arti­ficial nature of reality

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Joshua Glenn

A hilobrow literary mystery…