It's hard to pinpoint what exactly makes this story by Alice Munro so affecting. It's a reminiscence by a grown woman remembering ...

USA, 108 minutes Director: Elia Kazan Writers: Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak Photography: Boris Kaufman Music: Leona...

Occultist, drug user, bisexual, and mountaineer Aleister Crowley, who died in 1947, is probably more famous at this point for being famous...

I think there's a name for the type of story Philip K. Dick has written here—not exactly doppelganger, and mistaken identity isn't...

Tim Wu is a New Yorker writer so it's not surprising that his history of advertising—or, more properly, the advertising model—was nev...

USA, 138 minutes Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mary Orr Photography: Milton R. Krasner Music: Alfred N...

The first time I read this unpleasant story by Edgar Allan Poe was in a collection my parents gave me for my 12th birthday, along with the...

I liked Robert Graves's historical-fiction treatment of Roman times in the era of Augustus Caesar and after, but it does present anoth...

Donald Wandrei's completely ridiculous and excellent story works much like F. Marion Crawford's "Screaming Skull" —by in...

Alice Munro's story, complete with a well-chosen 19th-century cultural allusion (the painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid by Ed...