The Book of Bob
It’s been said my grandfather helped build modern-day Korea. He left a subtler kind of legacy for me
Read MoreJune 2004
Clive Thompson explores the economics of virtual worlds; Paul Webster asks if Canada will be complicit in US efforts to weaponize space; Larry Krotz reports on a man filing suit against his native Iran for torture; Bruce Grierson recounts the legacy of his grandfather, a Presbyterian evangelist stationed in early twentieth-century Korea…
The Millefeuille Industrial Complex
A revolution in the art of confectionery is uniting chefs and architects in a search for the perfect piece of cake
Read MoreGame Theories
Online fantasy games have booming economies and citizens who love their political systems. Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one?
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A Dandy for Our Times
Jean Cocteau dined, fought, or collaborated with anyone who was anyone in avant-garde Paris. But his own art was ignored, dismissed as the work of a frivolous queen. A new retrospective hopes to change that
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Unrepentant
A profile of screenwriter Budd Schulberg (1914-2009)
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The Ends of History
Histories of the entire universe, and of its minuscule parts—potatoes, coal, corsets—have captured our imagination. But what do they tell us about our past?
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