René Magritte's Practical Jokes, and More

At tens of thousands of pages, Claude Fredericks's diary is engrossing, tedious, and quite possibly a masterpiece   ... more »

René Magritte was a practical joker and occasional miscreant. He was also, perhaps, a little mad   ... more »

Rosalind Franklin was deprived of double helix fame. Was that due to a conspiracy, or plain old garden-variety sexism? .…