One man's crusade against 'woo-woo'

An updated style bible heralds the return of the preppy

Edgar Allan Poe, the disappearance of the 'Poe Toaster' and the best way to find a grave

The problem of disinterestedness in the Lingerie Football League of North America

Domestic and social dynamics within the parentless homestead in the films of John Hughes

Governors Island, New York, USA

Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

The intertwining of business, finance, art and numerology

A new exhibition about New York’s underground earth works reveals a quasi-mythological mirror image of the city

A biography of George Plimpton and Frederick Seidel’s collected poems celebrate two suave writers

The art market, insider trading and judging greatness

apexart, New York, USA

When so much art is trumpeted as being ‘political’ why do so few artists enter politics?

Edward Castronova (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007) / eds. Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008)

Deitch Projects, New York, USA

From photographing every house in America, to putting every book online, complete databases are all the rage