J.B. Spins

Hereford Cathedral is a great Anglican institution, but of course it was once Catholic. The new administration maintained their reverence...

It is too bad this grieving French mother was not in Death Valley for the decennial “ Desert Bloom .” It would have been just the sort of...

Fascists and fetishists share a similar taste in shiny black clothes. Hanna von Stezewitz’s old National Socialist grandfather was the fo...

As you might expect, the Living Theatre’s regular players had no trouble playing crazy. The company that premiered The Connection was no...

If it is any consolation, life would probably be even harder for these two sets of brothers if they were sisters instead, because that is...

It could be worse. When teenaged girls starting having convulsions in Salem, half the town was accused of witchcraft. In this case, it mi...

Culture snobs like to joke about gamers as if they are all Cheetos-eating man-children living in their parents’ basement, but many are re...

The original Mercury and Apollo astronauts were truly the best of the best. They were phenomenally talented pilots who could also perform...

Ghost stories have rarely been so matter-of-factly workaday, but this salt-of-the-earth family in provincial Shanxi can hardly afford to ...

Nobody should be better prepared for the unexpected than a heavily armed company of soldiers, but the supernatural operate under differen...

The blues survived segregation, share-cropping, music industry exploitation, and the sort of health risks that come with hard-drinking an...

With that name of his, you would expect Paul Dédalus, he must be a Joycian figure. He most certainly had a difficult childhood and if you...

Chris Rock does not believe guys like this exist. They are Asians who have more fun than you do—maybe even more fun than he does. These f...

From 1986 to 1998 Greg LeMond was the only American to have won the Tour de France. He became the only American Tour winner once more in ...

Kids will be kids. This dark pseudo-horror story is set in Brazil, but you could just as easily find girls similarly struggling with peer...

It is the time of Red Wednesday, the Festival of Fire, or Chaharshanbe Suri. Throughout Iran and the Persian diaspora, the Wednesday befo...

Just for the record, China’s leading documentarian has explicitly likened the country to Hell through a deliberate and unmistakable exten...