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Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I send out once or twice a week. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience. I...

One of the most subtle operations of time is the tendency it has to transform the facts of one age into the phantasies of another, and to cause the dreams of the past to become the realities of the present. Far away in the remote distance of history...

Off the keyboard of Geoffrey Chia Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Friend us on Facebook Composed in February 2014.  Published on the Doomstead Diner March 21, 2015 Discuss this article at the Kitchen Sink inside the Diner This essay is not for...

The Devil and Father Amorth: Witnessing “the Vatican Exorcist” at Work SOURCE When he made his 1973 classic, The Exorcist, William Friedkin had never seen an exorcism. For decades he wondered how close he had come to reality. So, last May, he followed...

Art is theft. — Pablo Picasso BEFORE I HAD anything to say, I had the desire to say something. No, let me revise that. I had the desire to be heard. A family legend is that at the age of three I leaped on stage during my brother’s Christmas pageant...