Horatio Alger

Ten years ago, I went to a therapist for the first time. I was writing a cookbook with an esteemed chef and needed help figuring out how to work with him. The chef in question was an alumni of Copenhagen’s vaunted restaurant Noma, and I…

It's about that time when everyone's New Year's resolutions have worn off, and we're back to binge-watching on the couch. Luckily, Netflix is here to make sure you have plenty to add to your watch list. And if you're…

In recent years, fictional movie characters have been hailed as queer icons  ... Many of these characters are non-human and appear in horror  — a genre that has often been linked with queerness.  Even if you haven't…

The story in my family goes that my mother shoveled snow on my due date. As a public school teacher, she only had a couple weeks of maternity leave and she wasn't going to waste it. I was born in the deepening blizzard,…

The Birkin bag is at the heart of a landmark NFT case. (Photo by Pierre Suu/GC Images) A trademark infringement trial between Hermes and a non-fungible token (NFT) artist that began earlier this week is expected to have major…

"You only play that old stuff!" a kid named DJ I had mentored yelled from the passenger side of my car some years back. At the time he was a high schooler and infatuated with the song "Thugz Mansion," by west coast…

Courtesy Farrar, Straus & Giroux In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European…

Mummy-case of Egyptian priest Nehemsumut exhibited at the National Museum of Scotland. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images) Museums across the U.S. and the U.K. have begun referring to mummies as “mummified…

A Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT billboard in Times Square. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) The downfall of crypto companies like FTX has not only depressed the cryptocurrency market, but raised questions about the once-thriving market…

As you walk toward Bockley Gallery at night, a pattern of glowing eyes greet you. The gallery windows of the Kenwood storefront are masked with paper, with eye holes cut out. Peek through them, and…