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Devin McKinney on: old records, Nabokov, Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire

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By Devin McKinney

PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (14)

NIGHT LIFE

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By Will Groff

21st
Sep

Middlebrow Bestsellers — this week

A service that we may or may not continue to offer. Thanks to our friends at the New York Times for doing the primary...
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By Joshua Glenn

21st
Sep

The Best Book Ever

In the 1990s, the artists Komar and Melamid began polling art lovers to discover the world’s ideal painting. I’m curious to learn whether we...
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By Matthew Battles

21st
Sep

The New Skrullicism

Skrulls hiding in great works of literature
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By Joshua Glenn

21st
Sep

Leonard Cohen

When LEONARD COHEN (born 1934) sings, it is at once a whisper, a prayer, a confession, a chant, a lullaby, a benediction in the...
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By Annie Nocenti

20th
Sep

Winds of Magic (2): The Real Peter Pan

On January 16, 2004, outside the California courthouse where he had just been arraigned on seven counts of child molestation and two counts of...
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By James Parker

20th
Sep

Jay Ward

We at HILOBROW are all alumni of JAY WARD’s (1920-89) Wossamatta U. After being well versed in the lowest form of humor, matriculates may...
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By David Smay

19th
Sep

Mama Cass Elliot

Contrary to rumor, MAMA CASS ELLIOT (1941-74) did not choke to death on a sandwich. Officially, she died from “heart failure due to fatty...
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By Katie Hennessey

18th
Sep

Rockbound

I can’t decide whether this is evidence of the book’s staying power, or a sign that its end is near: to commemorate the fortieth...
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By Matthew Battles