This New Food Pyramid is a Plate! And Also a Scam

The Mouse That Crawled Up Inside A Man, And Other Urban Legends Of The 17th Century

by Lili Loofbourow

The Worst Book Trailer in History

Maybe The Best Pizza In New York City

New Yorkers argue about pizza a lot. New Yorkers argue about a lot of things a lot, I suppose. But being that pizza is near and dear to New Yorker’s hearts (and that the very first pizza sold in America was sold at Lombardi’s, on Spring Street, in 1905), New…

The Novels Of Joseph Heller, In Order

7. Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man

6. Closing Time

5. Picture This

4. Good As Gold

3. God Knows

2. Catch-22

1. Something Happened

It Is Kind Of A Perfect Day

I just stepped outside and the weather is such that for a brief moment I was able to forget the even though life is basically meaningless, the period you endure between now and your eventual oblivion is still filled mainly with grief and dread and generalized annoyance and bad…

Taste For Human Flesh Complicates German Police’s New Detective Program

“The vultures are thought to be better than sniffer dogs at finding bodies when a large area has to be searched and the terrain is difficult, for example if it is densely overgrown. But the experiment raises…