Long before the foundations of New Orleans were laid, the river existed as a legend and a rumor. It was the monster to the west, just beyond the next hill, stand of trees, prairie, horizon. It was the mother of all waters, the torrent that flowed out of the garden to touch the desolate earth.
Have you ever woken in the dead of night, sat up in bed and said, as if from the depths of your being, No. This is a mistake. This is all wrong.
What is the function of art? Is it to show us something beautiful? Or is it to tell us what we’ve always known but never admitted to ourselves?
Rich Cohen explores the very plausible conspiracy theory that other great civilizations have predated humans on this planet.
In the past century, UFO sightings have spiked. Rich Cohen explores why.
A fixation on such questions can drive people mad.
This theory, argued by futurists and tech visionaries, holds that we live all in an intricately detailed game cooked up by a demigod, hacker or AI mastermind.
In the last century, UFO sightings have spiked—Rich Cohen explores why.
To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it; that’s when the culture of conspiracy, which is the culture of Donald Trump and fake news, was born.
Rich Cohen embarks on a quest to track down the very first New York gangster, the man behind all the other crime legends his father used to tell.
Wrigley Field is beloved not just because it’s a beautiful place to see a baseball game, which it is, not because of its harmonious dimensions, which it has, not because of its context, its perfect neighborhood of stoops and taverns where men …