Wes Phillips

Oscar Wilde's chief talent was appropriation, says Dr. Michèle Mendelssohn.

Huckleberry lurks in the shadows.

Taking a really close look at Leonardo's portrait.

I read Slate primarily to catch my colleague Fred Kaplan's "War Stories" column, but whenever I read Fred, I also go to Garry Trudeau's "The Sandbox," a milblog that allows military personnel stationed in Iraq and Afganistan to "vent, rhapsodize, and [inform] the folks on the home front . . . what is going on from their point of view."

Philip K. Dick has become a huge success 25 years after his death. He'd have seen the humor in that.

We might have neighbors—and they could be closer than we thought.