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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

10th
Sep

THE BOOK: TERMS OF SERVICE

THE BOOK Terms of Service Statement of Rights and Responsibilities This statement of the terms of service of The Book is derived from principles...
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By Matthew Battles

10th
Sep

Georges Bataille

A great theorist and taxonomist of eroticism.
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By Lucy Sante

09th
Sep

High-Mid shenanigans

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank wittily and intelligently notes that high-middlebrow pundits have whipped their ground troops up into a backlash against...
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By Joshua Glenn

09th
Sep

Monkey Science Roundup

Monkeys are making news across the world of science. As we discussed last week, researchers discovered that tamarin monkeys prefer music composed for them....
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By Matthew Battles

09th
Sep

Partisans: 1904-13

"My starting point is always a feeling of partisan­ship, a sense of injustice."
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By Joshua Glenn

09th
Sep

Otis Redding

“I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay/Watching the tide roll away/Oooh, I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay/Wastin’ time….” Time was...
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By Katie Hennessey

08th
Sep

Pinakothek (10): The Grasshopper and the Ant

Like the ant, the teenage stoner labors ceaselessly and uncomplaining, pursuing an arduous task that casual onlookers would dismiss as pointless, yet which is...
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By Lucy Sante

08th
Sep

Peter Sellers

He was a violent husband (to four different wives) who managed his depression by consorting with an astrologer; and a drug-abusing freemason who dealt...
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By Patrick Cates