Before the internet democratized, destigmatized, and decentralized the porn industry, it was largely a back-alley business. The same was true in the realm of gay porn, except it faced more scrutiny, ...

Art Concello's career from trapeze artist to manager, owner intersected with another North Dakotan known for his love of the circus Mayville native Maureen Brunsdale has written a biography of Art and ...

A new book explores the connections between Jews, the circus and the study of Jewish text. (JTA) — For a brief and slightly embarrassing period in my teens, I wanted to run away with the circus. I ...

Over 300 route books made by American circuses are being digitized for the first time by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art. “The Circus Annual” from Ringling Bros ...

In 1969, at age 19, Rob Mermin literally ran off and joined the circus. While his friends were wallowing in the mud at Woodstock, attending college and protesting the Vietnam War, Mermin was getting ...

In “Circus of Dreams,” the literary editor John Walsh writes about the bookish life in London when Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and their generation were in the increasingly bright ...