Wordoku: it’s just like Sudoku but with letters instead of numbers! Follow the instructions above the puzzle to reveal a hidden message. Our special thanks to our puzzle maker, Dan Mason! Dan creates puzzles for... Read More

Warren Chisum is a conservative state legislator in Texas. He has long campaigned for the re-criminalization of homosexual acts, and for the elimination of programs designed to help people with AIDS. In 1994 he boasted... Read More

Did you know that in the Roman Catholic Church, there is an official called a camerlengo whose sole duty since the Middle Ages has been to ascertain that a pope is truly dead? One of... Read More

Edward O. Wilson's latest book is structured around three questions: Where did we come from, what are we, and where are we going? Philosophers and theologians have been chewing on these questions for millennia, but... Read More

I have just read—well, more or less—three recent books that will weigh heavily on my mind if I don’t write about them. First, I must explain that I usually read more than one book at... Read More

I loved The Avengers. I’ve seen it twice so far, and I have every intention of seeing it at least once more in theaters before buying it on DVD. Every character was interesting and well... Read More

Awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, Stephen Greenblatt’s new book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern gives us a fascinating, if somewhat disjointed, history of the suppression, unlikely survival, and subsequent effect on... Read More