Adaptations of books aren't always terrible – No Country for Old Men would like to have a word – but there are certainly more bad ones than great ones. Take, for instance, 2010's movie adaptation of the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians... ...

Lol Tolhurst, founding drummer of The Cure, has just published Goth: A History and is about to release a new album with Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Budgie and music producer Jacknife Lee. In celebration of this creative burst, The Quietus asked T... ...

I'm delighted to imagine Victorian readers scandalizing themselves with the Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and ****** Words, published in London in 1860. [via Hacker News] Could you have learnt to patter flash the argot of costermongers, hawking... ...

The prolific street-lit author’s ******* books went viral on TikTok. Many believed he was a white writer profiting off Black culture. That was just the beginning. ...

Acclaimed bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon spent his Covid quarantine lovingly and meticulously creating a digital tribute to / replica of the Science Fiction and Fantasy section in the bookstore of his youth. And it is glo... ...

Fantagraphics has been doing a great service to humankind by producing a serially-published multi-volume set of all the comic book work cartoonist Carl Barks did on Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge in the 1940s-1960s. The Carl Barks duck comics are con... ...

Charting the different eras of Hollywood is fascinating. When we assess the cultural zeitgeist against specific eras of Hollywood, it becomes easy to understand how each epoch of American filmmaking came to be. It's no coincidence that a decade a... ...

Charting the different eras of Hollywood is fascinating. When we assess the cultural zeitgeist against specific eras of Hollywood, it becomes easy to understand how each epoch of American filmmaking came to be. It's no coincidence that a decade a... ...

We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few, by Robert Ovetz. The US Constitution is hailed by some political scientists, some lawyers, and some political pundits as the most important document of natural rights ever penned by human cre... ...

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sound, Art, and Ink on Paper is a stunning new coffee table book celebrating the visual design of rock & roll. The book captures the history of Higher Ground, a renowned independent music venue in South Burlington, Ver... ...