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Devin McKinney on: old records, Nabokov, Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire
PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (14)
NIGHT LIFE
27th
Feb
Feb
Do what thou Wilt
This morning I read Tom Sharpe’s 1976 campus novel, Wilt, because an AbeBooks survey of British readers named it one of the 10 funniest...
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27th
Feb
Feb
Houdini’s Lament
Harry Houdini was not only the storied illusionist of memory; in his time he was famous as a debunker of mediums and psychics and...
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26th
Feb
Feb
Calligraphy Lesson
Wong Fei Hung (played by the great Kwan Tak Hing) gives Master Ko a writing lesson. From The Magnificent Butcher (1979), directed by Sammo...
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26th
Feb
Feb
Monogrammed Death
We’d like to think the L and the B signify Low Brow. But they more likely represent the initials of engraver M. Lucas Brunn,...
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26th
Feb
Feb
Double Exposure (1)
Among the photos making the social-media rounds in the aftermath of the Turkish Airlines crash in Amsterdam yesterday was this haunting image: It was...
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23rd
Feb
Feb
Are We Alone – SETI Institute Science Radio
Among the radio transmissions winging its way to other galaxies from Earth is “Are We Alone,” a program hosted by Seth Shostak of the...
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