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5 Elements of a Great Joke: Shaunacy Ferro Stand-up comedy is more than just telling jokes on stage. It’s an art, and one that requires skills honed over years of practice. The way comedians perform their material is far different from how you tell...

This essay originally appeared in a December 2012 issue of  The Atlantic and is forthcoming in The Care and Feeding of an Independent Bookstore, an exclusive publication from Independent Bookstore Day 2016 which features two other essays by Ann Patchett...

Sure, with its sprawling server farms, Google is probably the web’s most powerful entity. And everyone knows about the influence of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia. But to us, powerful means changing what we eat, how we vote, and the ways we...

His firm, Dennis Publishing, initiated computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the UK. In more recent times, the business added lifestyle names including its main brand “The Week”, which will be printed in britain as well as America. In 1995, Dennis...

Nicole Levy / Capital New York: Felix Dennis deeded ownership and profits of Mental Floss and The Week to a UK forest trust  —  Felix Dennis left a forest for his legacy ... and heir  —  When Felix Dennis, the idiosyncratic owner of namesake publishing...