Punk rock has a robust tra­di­tion of gross-out, offen­sive comedy—one car­ried into the present by bands like Fat White Fam­i­ly and Diar­rhea Plan­et, who may…

We’ve focused a fair bit here on the work of Delia Der­byshire, pio­neer­ing elec­tron­ic com­pos­er of the mid-twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry—fea­tur­ing two doc­u­men­taries on her and dis­cussing…

If you hap­pen to be a high school stu­dent in Flori­da who’s eager to read A Clock­work Orange, that urge may turn out to be…

Give Dr. Andrew Weil three min­utes, and he can teach you a 60-sec­ond tech­nique for falling asleep. Above, the alter­na­tive med­i­cine guru walks you through the 4–7‑8…

When the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was released on 18 July 1925, the book market was in deep crisis and the publisher…

The most famous image appeared in 1934 at the height of Nessie-mania: a slender, serpent-like neck rising from the loch. For decades, the photo baffled…

Their debut album “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” changed the course of East Coast hip-hop in 1993, with its lyrical acrobatics delivered by a charismatic…

Think­ing of tak­ing a trip abroad? Or maybe relo­cat­ing for good? Amer­i­cans would do well, even 150 years hence, to attend to Mark Twain’s satir­i­cal…

In an issue of Revue Projet (France) exploring our diverse relationships to forests, Alain Karsenty writes on the ‘mirage of offsetting’: the idea that planting…

A unique depiction of military life Now Boots shines a spotlight on the courage and resilience of service members, who sublimated an integral part of…

This week, we welcome Oumou Sangaré, one of Mali’s greatest divas. Currently on an international tour and preparing for her next album, she takes us…

Bri­an Eno once said of the Vel­vet Under­ground that their first album sold only 30,000 copies, but every­one who bought one start­ed a band. Joy…

On 18 October 2024, artists and scientists gathered at the Université libre de Bruxelles to explore the possibilities of ArtScience, ‘a space for the co-construction,…

Alamy(Credit: Alamy) Blackhouse thatched cottage in the Hebrides, Scotland Many thatched cottages in the Hebrides are simple, single-storey structures called blackhouses or taigh-dubh (their name…

The 1967 film “Les demoiselles de Rochefort” by Jacques Demy starred a young Catherine Deneuve and her real-life sister Françoise Dorleac as twins living in…