(Sub)Culture Features

In September, as Donald Trump toured New Bern, North Carolina, a neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Florence, the president became distracted by a shiny object: a lovely yacht, washed up in a backyard. “Is this your boat?” Trump asked a resident, according to the Washington Post. “Or did it become …

“The Man” was the perfect nickname for him. Stan Lee was the kind of person for whom the phrase “towering figure” was invented. As the co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Avengers, Daredevil, Thor, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Ant-Man, Black Widow and countless …

The point of any debut novel is to make a splash and get the writer noticed. And in the case of Sean Penn, the author of Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff– well, he’s had no trouble getting people to talk about his work. The book was controversial even before …