Memes often take on a life of their own, and the J-horror oddity This Man is a particularly bizarre example of an online phenomenon escaping containment and becoming something else. What that ...

As their final desperate act, the Red Sox called up everyone. They moved six portable lockers into the middle of the clubhouse, recalled four players who’d been sent home for the winter and played ...

“I am a tributary of something greater,” wrote poet Major Jackson in his new book, The Absurd Man. The poem, called “Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain From Waterfront ...

More a ramshackle collection of setpieces and ideas than a fully formed movie, Big Man Japan is alternatively funny, touching, and baffling. Though not an unqualified success, it’s hard to hate ...

An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how good people can be and how he can change. When he ...