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

02nd
Nov

Steve Ditko

Spider-Man and Dr. Strange co-creator STEVE DITKO (born 1927) is the third member of the triumvirate of genius that originally conceived the Marvel Universe....
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By Greg Rowland

01st
Nov

Winds of Magic (8): The wild poet

In December 1984 a small but memorable press conference was held in an English pub. It had just been announced that Ted Hughes was...
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By James Parker

01st
Nov

Charlie Kaufman

CHARLIE KAUFMAN (born 1958) writes film scripts that zig when you expect a zag. Fantastic notions are met with deadpan nonchalance, creating comedy of...
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By Annie Nocenti

31st
Oct

Neal Stephenson

No one writes edge-of-your-seat, action-packed, cinematic cliffhangers better than NEAL STEPHENSON (born 1959), and that’s just the talking-heads parts of his novels of ideas....
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By Peggy Nelson

30th
Oct

The Book is a Weapon (6)

Title: “This is the enemy.” Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. : Distributed by Division of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information Date: 1943....
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By HILOBROW

30th
Oct

Ezra Pound

In a wire cage in the Pisan sun at the end of the Second World War, the forces of chaos and order clashed for...
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By Matthew Battles

29th
Oct

R+M (4): PETITE, RED-HAIRED, OBSERVANT

Monster: “Petite, Red-haired, Observant” — by David Huyck *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for...
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By Joe Alterio

29th
Oct

Double Exposure (8): Soul Food

A cherubic angel heralds the advent of Minute Maid Heart Wise orange juice, which miraculously — note how the bottle glows — resolves the...
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By Joshua Glenn