Pinakothek (2) — Who Owns New York?
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THAT IS THE APT TITLE of the Columbia University fight song. It’s odd that I remember it, because I can’t have heard it more than once or twice — my time there was the absolute […]
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It’s time to reread… everything.
Hilo Heroes, July 12-18
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JULY 12 A New England scion twice kicked out of Harvard for nonconformity and “apathy,” […]
Read This PostPinakothek (1) — Détournement
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ONE DAY VERY SOON it will happen that our heroes, having searched and studied ancient property maps on file at the bureau of records, having rented a basement storage space on the opposite side of […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, July 5-11
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JULY 5 It seems impossible that the various identities — Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, RZArecta, […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, June 28-July 4
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 28 My heart still skips a beat when I look at old Rolling Stone […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, June 21-27
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 21 Today, the name MARY McCARTHY (1912-89) first brings to mind the frank bed-hopping […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, June 14-20
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 14 The name MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904-71) conjures up an image: a woman with a […]
Read This PostIgor’s Blues
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WHEN I WATCH old monster movies, I think, What is it with these scientists? Whenever you have some Misshapen Fiend lurching all over the frame, muttering gibberish, trying to kill everything in its path and […]
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The Argonaut Folly (part 1 of 3)
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An abridged version of this essay appeared in the journal n+1 (Winter 2007). PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE I set out to commemorate the heroes of old who sailed the good ship […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, June 7-13
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JUNE 7 Time is a trick, says PRINCE (born 1958), and to consider him as […]
Read This PostAnd we lived beneath the waves
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Psychedelic revelations about the artificial nature of reality
Read This PostI After the Cloudy Doubly Beautifully
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BEFORE THE TURN of the millennium when the Web was new, I worked in the bowels of Harvard’s Widener Library. There was as yet no Twitter, no Facebook, no YouTube; blogs and wikis were the […]
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