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Though it had been in free-fall for months, it was still a shock when the San Francisco Bay Guardian finally hit the ground. The alternative weekly newspaper, which maintained a stridently progressive editorial line even as the city it served became...

In the introduction to his essay collection, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, Geoff Dyer writes: “I virtually never read newspapers or magazines. If I see a piece by a writer I admire in a paper I very rarely read it; but as I skim through catalogs...

In an extract from new book The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, Alex Nunns examines how the Guardian newspaper reacted to Corbyn’s sudden rise in the 2015 leadership contest. The Guardian occupied a special place in relation to...

“Genius is rarely recognized in its lifetime, but fortunately, neither is gross incompetence.” - Alfred E. Neuman Civilization’s septic slide has given Mad Magazine enough inspirational material for 60 years--surprising no one more than its staff. In...

Around the same time a devastating hurricane smashed and flooded its way up the East Coast, leaving millions homeless or without power, another storm collided into a professional subculture based in New York City. While the second storm is only metaphoric...