‘Hollywood Wives’: Shagging Movie Stars In Their Luxurious Mansions

A Conversation With Chad Harbach, Author Of “The Art Of Fielding”

by Corban Goble

Three Poems By Michael Robbins

by Mark Bibbins, Editor

Use Your Illusion

It’s a gorgeous day, not a bat in the sky.
 The topography’s square with the recon.
 Contents may have shifted during rapture.
 Let’s put the Christ back in Xbox.

Inside Gawker Media’s First Company-Wide Meeting

Choosing Who To Root For (And Who To Hate) At The U.S. Open

by Thomas Golianopoulos

Consider The Waveform

“What visual sign says ‘music’? Notes remain the most typical answer — particularly, it seems, beamed eighth or quarter notes (see the iTunes icon); the solitary eighth note with its jaunty flag; and the clef. The disc shape has had a pretty good run, and you still see instances involving…

Joe Scarborough Loves America in Song, Makes 9/11 Skin Flick

“As art tends to require the passage of time, it could also be that Scarborough’s song is just the first in a series of more reflective cultural examinations of the last 10 years. Such works cannot change the last decade…

Reading Makes You Violent

“’Reading aggression in literature can influence subsequent aggressive behavior, which tends to be specific to the type of aggression contained in the story,’ a Brigham Young University research team led by Sarah M. Coyne writes in the British Journal of Social Psychology. The study…

Yes, Let’s Teach Robots To Think For Themselves

“You’ve heard it before: robots are bad at new things. They’re bad at adapting to new situations, they’re bad at recognizing new objects, and they’re bad at coming up with their own ideas about how to carry out tasks in changing environments. One…

Wardell Quezergue, 1930–2011

“Wardell Quezergue Sr., the bandleader, producer, composer, arranger and educator whose contributions to a plethora of New Orleans rhythm & blues classics earned him the moniker “the Creole Beethoven,” died Tuesday morning at East Jefferson Hospital of congestive heart failure…