James Hughes
James Hughes is a Chicago-based writer and editor who has contributed to Slate, The Believer, Wax Poetics, and The Village Voice. For a decade, he was an editor and publisher of Stop Smiling magazine and its book imprint.
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Punch How Advertisers Used World War I to Sell, Sell, Sell
Cigarettes, gramophones, even guard dogs. There was nothing that the Great War didn't provide a good excuse to buy.
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AP How American Museums Protected Their Art From the Nazis
The "Monuments Men" of Europe weren't the only ones scrambling to keep priceless works out of Hitler's reach.
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Stanley Kubrick's Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich
Kubrick wanted to tell the tale of Dietrich Schulz-Koehn, a swing-loving Luftwaffe officer who wrote about the music scenes in Nazi-occupied cities using the pen name "Dr. Jazz."
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For Early Antarctic Explorers, Hockey Was Cold Comfort
NHL fans may have gotten desperate during the lockout, but not as desperate as Ernest Shackleton's men.
