Slate’s Best Books of 2015 coverage: Monday: Overlooked books of 2015. Tuesday: The best lines of 2015. Wednesday: The best comics of 2015. Thursday: Laura Miller and Katy Waldman’s favorite books of ...

The Dorothy Parker Martini Glass. Abigail F.B. Pattersonfor Slate Slate’s Official Martini Madness Bracket Troy Patterson Troy Patterson is Slate’s writer at large and a contributing writer at the New ...

Alfie, Kirsten, Miles, and Elly. Gregg Segal The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. For 70 years, Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded ...

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Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page performing in Hamburg, Germany, in 1973 Photo by Heinrich Klaffs/Wikimedia Commons It is early 1969, and you are young. You hold in your hands an LP by a ...

Speaker A: Then there started to feel like there was deluge or like, okay, a heavy rain of commentary about gift guides, articles and social media posts and tweets and skeets about why there were so ...

Dorian Nakamoto, believed by some to be bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves his home in Temple City, Calif., on March 6, 2014. Photo by David McNew/Reuters ...

Listen to Andrea Mays discuss her new book, The Millionaire and the Bard, and take questions from the audience. Recorded June 20, 2015. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ...

Speaker C: Yeah. So Pink lady are an example of idols, and idols are a really important part of how Japanese media works. I wasn’t aware when I started my research just how significant idols were. But ...

Stream Future's highly-anticipated sophomore album, Honest. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella After a series of delays and even a name change (it was previously titled Future Hendrix), ...

A surprise was in store for fans who attended the 25 th anniversary screening of Beauty and the Beast on Sunday evening. After the film ended, and to the palpable excitement of audience, original cast ...