FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

28th
Dec

Guy Debord

GUY DEBORD (1931-94) was a founder and key intellectual figure in the Situationist International, an avant-garde Marxist collective influential in postwar France, especially during...
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By Mark Kingwell

27th
Dec

Oscar Levant

A virtuoso pianist with a biting wit, OSCAR LEVANT (1906-72) was equally at home with Schoenberg’s atonalism and Gershwin’s jazzy rhapsodies, dated a series...
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By Lynn Peril

26th
Dec

Serpentine Fire

Alchemy has long since made the transition from practice to metaphor. And while this may have disturbed Sir Isaac, it’s fine with the artists:...
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By Peggy Nelson

26th
Dec

Henry Miller

His books were banned in America for decades, sparked a groundbreaking “obscenity as literature” debate, and were a seminal part of the sexual revolution....
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By Annie Nocenti

25th
Dec

HiLo Holiday Greetings!

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By HILOBROW

25th
Dec

Annie Lennox

For somebody who’s been batting out the hits for thirty years now, ANNIE LENNOX (born 1954) sure doesn’t make a big deal about it:...
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By Douglas Wolk

24th
Dec

Island of Misfit Toys

The HiLo elves have been busy, busy, busy. In addition to the wonderful books and stories featured previously in our gift shop, we also...
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By Peggy Nelson

24th
Dec

The Book is a Weapon (12)

Meta-commentary: Researching pulp cover illustrations in which books are featured is exceedingly difficult. Try googling the phrases “book on book” or “book cover featuring...
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By HILOBROW