LATEST ADDITIONS

On the disappearing great operatic diva.

I love Tothian: He "doesn't wear a mask because it blocks his peripheral vision, and says he doesn't wear a cape 'because capes get in the way of actually doing real superhero stuff.'"

Me, I'm lucky—I work with a great editor and an even better copy editor. It's win-win.

<i><b>Let's Play the Caption Game!</i></b>

Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged thousands of soldiers, reservists, and nurses into various patriotic symbols and photographed them from above&mdash;a description which, while being accurate, doesn't prepare you for their work.

There's a new biography of Leo Szilard, the physicist who proposed the Strangelovian "doomsday weapon."

Who am I to critique somebody else's field of study?

It's Monday. It's raining. And people, tourists in particular, (excuse me, why don’t you just poke out the other eye while you're at it!) cannot walk with umbrellas, so let’s talk Ticketmaster.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda&mdash;some "superior" formats just didn't achieve dominance.

Mohsin Hamid, author of <I>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</I>, was asked on a book tour, "So tell me, sir. Why do they hate us?" Having spent half his life in America, the Pakistani writer had to think about who "us" and "they" were. This fine essay is the result of that thinking.