Sunday, March 29, 2015 may as well be considered the date of Scientology’s funeral and burial. Yes, the “church” continues to live as a real estate holding company, its billion dollars worth of property around the world continuing to provide cozy, often garish surroundings for Scientologists to “audit” each other, eliminating “engrams” on the road […]

Maybe you’ve seen the 2010 short film The Wilderness Downtown, which is both a long-form video for the Arcade Fire song “We Used to Wait” and an advertisement for the Google Chrome browser—the only browser on which it can be watched. When you fire up the film, a search bar invites you to enter your […]

In 1983, the late great poet John Hollander published an odd volume of verse called Powers of Thirteen. Every poem in the collection was 13 lines long, with 13 syllables in each line. What’s more, the collection consisted of 169 poems — that’s 13 squared, of course. Nobody had ever, so far as we know, […]