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

06th
Aug

1854-63: Plutonians

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.
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By Joshua Glenn

05th
Aug

On the difficulty of identifying Hilobrows

Nobrows are easily recognized, for their gait is dancing and bold. But HiLobrows frequently deceive one because their bearing is curiously like that of...
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By Joshua Glenn

05th
Aug

Paranoid Theory: The Ape That’s All Wet

Elaine Morgan is a Welsh screen writer whose credits include Dr Finlay’s Casebook and How Green Was My Valley. But for more than thirty...
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By Matthew Battles

05th
Aug

Wendell Berry

As a kid, my upbringing pulled me in divergent directions: on my mother’s side, an urban technophile Jewishness (inspired, in part by her own...
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By Jason Grote

04th
Aug

Comedy and the Death of God

Hey, PhD students looking for a thesis topic — here’s a freebie. These sketchy notes are inspired by a B&N.com review of Thomas Pynchon’s...
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By Joshua Glenn

04th
Aug

Louis Armstrong

Miles Davis once said that the history of jazz could be summed up by two names: Charlie Parker and LOUIS ARMSTRONG (1901-71). I’d go...
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By Greg Rowland

03rd
Aug

Pinakothek (5) — Hooliganism

Just about as rare as if it had never been published at all, this may be the only extant copy of Dave Carluccio’s only...
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By Lucy Sante

03rd
Aug

James Hetfield

Even when JAMES HETFIELD (born 1963) smiles — which he did copiously during this year’s induction of Metallica into the Rock and Roll Hall...
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By Patrick Cates