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

22nd
Aug

Dorothy Parker

Despite her reputation as the witty gal of the Algonquin Round Table, DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) dismissed the clique as “just a lot of people...
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By Ingrid Schorr

21st
Aug

Kim Cattrall

The thing about KIM CATTRALL (born 1956) is that when she was young she was middle-aged, and in middle age found her youth —...
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By Sarah Weinman

20th
Aug

Double Exposure (7): Free-Range Children

“The domestic beast has been bred to special purpose; the tame animal is a wild thing brought to heel. The feral creature, by contrast,...
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By Joshua Glenn

20th
Aug

H.P. Lovecraft

He introduced "outsideness" — cosmic dread — to science fiction.
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By Erik Davis

19th
Aug

Psychonauts: 1874-83

The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.
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By Joshua Glenn

19th
Aug

Ogden Nash

OGDEN NASH (1902-71) was the American master of light verse, an art that has fallen on hard times, since it requires both gentle jokes...
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By Douglas Wolk

18th
Aug

Roman Polanski

The life and films of ROMAN POLANSKI (born 1933) in turn foreshadow, stalk and haunt each other. His films seem apolitical, but the claustrophobia...
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By Annie Nocenti

17th
Aug

Pinakothek (7): Turf

This was the view out my back window in New York City for more than ten years. That time (1979-1990) was the heyday of...
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By Lucy Sante