Relationships

No Nudes is Good Nudes, Bird-Dogging Brother, and Tossing Out Used Tarts

NO NUDES IS GOOD NUDES Dear Delphi, I was out and about in London the other day when...

Joe Bob's New York

Niagara Falls, Ontario: World’s Greatest Tourist Trap

Niagara Falls, Ontario: World’s Greatest Tourist Trap

NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA—I’m in awe of Niagara Falls. Not the actual falls....

Blogosphere

Twilight of the Skeptics

Twilight of the Skeptics

One of the things I miss about academia is the spectacle of alleged savants fighting...

Scandal

Won’t Get Schooled Again

Won’t Get Schooled Again

In what’s being described as the most extensive case of test-tampering in US...

Remembrance

Death of an Imperial Pen Pal

Death of an Imperial Pen Pal

The San Fernando Valley in the 1970s was a very dull place. Hot and dusty, filled with...

Crime

Moms Who Murdered and Didn’t Walk Free

Moms Who Murdered and Didn’t Walk Free

Armchair juries across America erupted in rage on Tuesday when a real jury found Casey...

Tech Overload

Obama’s Astronots

Obama’s Astronots

Tomorrow marks the closing of perhaps the most magnificent period of human achievement...

High Life

A Farewell to Hemingway

A Farewell to Hemingway

Exactly fifty years ago last Friday night going into Saturday morning—July 1st into...

Hollywood

Good Robots Fight Bad Robots

Good Robots Fight Bad Robots

I had long wondered why critics loathe the Transformers movies about giant alien robots...

Relationships

Working for Mr. Dick, Refusing to Get a Prenup, and Failing to Mourn My Mom

Working for Mr. Dick, Refusing to Get a Prenup, and Failing to Mourn My Mom

WORKING FOR MR. DICK Dear Delphi, I used to be a successful contractor but I fell on...

Lit Crit

The Freedom to Be Middling

The Freedom to Be Middling

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called the novel...

Remembrance

Better a Hero Than a Celebrity

Better a Hero Than a Celebrity

I first met Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor in the summer of 1977 in Corfu. I was onboard...

Wild Things

Maidstone: Underground Filmmaking’s Altamont

Maidstone: Underground Filmmaking’s Altamont

My father, Norman Mailer, once wrote that film exists somewhere between memory and...

Kids Today

You’ve Come a Ching-Chong-Ling-Long Way, Baby

You’ve Come a Ching-Chong-Ling-Long Way, Baby

Now that UCLA has a takeout service called Ching-Chong-Ling-Long, we can finally put...

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