We've been fans of the German comic artist Ralf König for quite some time. Here's one of his latest strips (need hints (? ), scro...

If history "teaches" anything, it teaches irony...and so, here we are, with a set of "propaganda" posters distributed b...

The new movie is out, and it  is all the rage this week . We have a few things to say about Call Me by Your Name , but let's start wi...

Dressed for the occasion

Cool, folks, we have a Q&A about our short story The Fountain of Geneva on Matthew Bright 's site. The main question... T...

There we go...yes, this is little Michael, the serious looking guy, dead center

(We're already in Chapter 5. Godehart has been tricked into underwriting the Festival Award of  $$$  100k, which explains the whiskeys....

We haven't studied this, of course, not in a serious way, but when you are standing with one leg in the classical-antique period, as we...

Michael is working on the text side of a comic strip/graphic novel about Plato's Symposium . Yes, the philosopher, and, yes, the canoni...

And here are a few words from today's decision, composed by Justice Anthony Kennedy: "No union is more profound than marriag...

New Year's resolutions 

  (Update: and while we are at it, here's Justin's lastest picture:) Anything more we have to say about Justin, a fragment ...

It's been a year since we've been in Venice, and now we've hit upon this beautiful picture by Hannes Steinert , depicting, you...

Finally, folks, the second part of our true-true short story about the visit of our friends from Australia. A third (and last part) will fol...

Cool, folks, cool, the first part of a wonderful story by Massoud Hayoun, an Arab-American who went to China at the age of 19 to learn Mand...