How the legendary coach copes with retirement.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

On literary tourism:

Dickens World, in other words, sounded less like a viable business than it did a mockumentary, or a George Saunders short story, or the thought experiment of a radical Marxist seeking to expose the terminal bankruptcy at the heart of consumerism. And yet it was real.

A profile of the writer.

On the life and career of Chris Farley.

Soap operas, enrollment in multiple graduate programs at once, student films alongside Hollywood blockbusters. Is James Franco’s entire career a piece of performance art?

Born in Germany, raised in Montana, now living in New York, comedian Reggie Watts describes his style as “culture sampling.”