During a break in the French Open final, in 1960, Nicola Pietrangeli took his shoes off in the locker room. His socks were ...

In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, a mysterious Mexican aristocrat bids against Buffalo Bill and the vampire Erzsebet for Jim Bowie's knife.

The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate unusual scientific research—this year including lizard pizza preferences and fingernail growth.