Camera Obscura From photographer Abelardo Morell, a gallery of hauntingly beautiful pictures excerpted from his new book, Camera Obscura, where we discover how much of the world can fit through a pinhole.

Obsessions: Looking It Up Continuing our series on personal obsessions, Paul Ford tells us about his passion for reference works, the more obscure the subject matter the better.

Paris Hilton and the American Cannibal In our continuing series, a profile of the pornographer who put Paris Hilton in your living room, and a fascinating look at “pseudo-events” in our culture and the media that can’t get enough of them.

The Knickerbocker Of all the classic New York hotels, one of its finest, The Knickerbocker, has fallen into almost-total obscurity. Clay Risen opens doors that have been too long forgotten and too much made over.