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My initial delight with steampunk was almost certainly connected to my love of good sci-fi and fantasy. The close connection between magic and technology is essential for the genre, if...

This post was updated during the few days after Operation Geronimo became public. White House counterrorism adviser John Brennan’s press briefing transcription in full, or, if you prefer, here is...

This article was originally published over at The Idler. This morning, around eleven, I rolled out of bed and into my computer chair to peruse this morning’s news. I took a...

We Simones are an exceedingly practical, irreverent folk regarding death. Case and point: last year, over Christmas dinner, we discussed who would be the executor of my father and step-mother’s...

by J. D. Salinger Reprinted in memory of Salinger. There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl...