By: Joshua Glenn

“I was really intrigued by the idea that plants are violent.”

By: Deb Chachra

Genre actors can be asked to play roles that are seven kinds of impossible.

By: Matthew Battles

Sucking the lifeblood from a spirited original.

By: Peggy Nelson

Short attent­ion span? Frag­ment­ation and ab­sorption are models of inter­action.

By: Joshua Glenn

A year ago this month, I identified a generational cohort of Americans and Western Europeans: the New Gods. Born between 1914 and 1923, the New Gods are — to translate my periodization into the middlebrow-speak […]

By: Matthew Battles

National Geographic News reports that the skull of a plague victim unearthed near Venice exhibits an unmistakable hallmark of treatment for vampirism. The woman’s mouth was forced open by a brick — a measure that […]