If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...

AMC has released yet another promo for the final episodes of "Breaking Bad." While keeping mum on footage from the series, this teaser trailer features Walter White (Bryan Cranston) eerily reading the ...

Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...

Percy Bysshe Shelly turned the despot Ozymandias into a memorable sonnet about tyranny and time. Inspired by the poem, sculptor Douglas Kornfeld created a monumental red figure named Ozymandias that ...

The Sept. 15 episode of AMC's Breaking Bad broke hearts with its badness. In this instance, "badness" translates to television amazingness. I recently wrote about how the show's writers use poetry to ...

While the nature of Oz's true parentage is still up for debate — we have a strong feeling his "real" mom is Ivy, but who's the father? — the meaning behind his full name is crystal clear. So, where ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo are two gigantic legs in ...

A fun little meta moment in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is bound to catch the attention of English lit nerds everywhere ...