Articles Tagged with #mysteries
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Gallery
Night Divers
Paintings of divers, ships at sea, and Superman—wearing underpants or not—find common ground in quiet mystery.
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Gallery
History of Magic
Paintings full of ceremony, mysticism, and sisterhood that remain electric with desire, even when the object of desire is a mystery.
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Every Unhappy Family
Girl With the Old English Tattoo
A court order is found buried in a desk. A private detective is hired. But tracking down a doppelgänger is not the same as confronting one.
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Gallery
The Origin of New Species
Inspired by folk tales, mythical beasts, and Portuguese azulejos, an artist paints her own version of natural history.
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Profiles
The Private Lives of the Cryptozoologists
Personal collections groomed over decades gather signs of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and other hidden animals—crumbs of a fuller truth preserved by citizen scientists. One such collection in Maine is open to the public.
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My Contemporary British TV Detectives
Quick and Energetic, but Conventional
Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp, portrayed by Philip Jackson in the long-running Poirot series, is my favorite. He goes into every new adventure believing he’ll finally one-up...
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Personal Essays
The Querent
Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person with the cards.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Adventure of the Missing Stocking
The writers of the television series Lost take time out of their busy schedules to write this pastiche—the latest chapter in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.