by Judith Flanders
Chapter 1: Easy to Rise – Coffee in Covent Garden Market
It is 2.30 in the morning. It is still night, but it is also ‘tomorrow’. By this hour at Covent Garden market, in the center … Read the article
by Roger Clarke
One thing I never really covered in my book Ghosts: A Natural History was my early experiences with ouija boards. Really, it reads like the script of an as-yet unwritten horror movie: teenagers in an unsupervised … Read the article
by Greg Nichols
Chapter 1: In the Shadow of Paul Brown
From a distance, the corrugated overhang outside the hotel lobby looked like the folds of a paper fan, or like the charted performance of a volatile stock. On the … Read the article
by Anne Sinclair; Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside
Paul Rosenburg
Rue la Boétie Number 21. I’ve passed by it hundreds of times. My mother liked to show me the 1930s façade with its stone arches. I’d noticed various … Read the article
by Doug Wilson
The First Baseball Strike in History
April 1, 1972 baseball owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association played the cruelest April Fool’s Day joke of all on fans. Only it wasn’t a joke. They stopped the … Read the article
by Frances Dinkelspiel
1) The Franciscan Fathers of Baja California
The Franciscan fathers were the first to plant grapes for California wine. Father Junipero Serra wrote to his bosses in Baja California in the late 18th century and asked that they … Read the article
by Jay Ingram
Chapter 10 – A Deadly Progression
The prospect of slowing, interrupting or even stopping the disease seems daunting, but there might be a window of opportunity: How does the spread of the disease actually take place? Is … Read the article
by Ian Plenderleith
NASL Soccer
Everyone knows that the New York Cosmos was the baddest, sexiest team in the old North American Soccer League, right? They had Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer. They were owned by Warner Communications, … Read the article
by Matthew Dennison
Every Tolkien fan remembers Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. Rapacious, uppity, with a formidable temper and a keen eye for desirable possessions, Lobelia is among the terrors of the Shire. Married to Bilbo Baggins’s cousin Otho, she covets Bilbo’s … Read the article
by Peter N. Milligan
I run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, in the summertime with my adoptive brother Ari at the famous San Fermín fiesta. After I come home, I deliver eight or nine pairs of white pants … Read the article