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The wry, D.I.Y. branding of heroin. Photo: Graham Macindoe, via Wired In celebration of its many contributions to arts and letters, Boston has approved a plan to turn a section of the city into the...
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A Greek vase with runners at the panathenaic games, ca. 530 BC. “Picture a person running. You’re probably picturing [it] wrong. It’s okay, you wouldn’t be alone. It turns out that artists have been...
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A still from Top Gun, 1986. Rivka Galchen on Kafka (or rather, his biography): “It has been said of Kafka’s work many times that the thing to remember is that it is funny. Kafka was known to laugh...
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José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Girl with a Book, ca. 1875.William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect “the art of the glimpse,” has died at eighty-eight. “His...
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Look for a new cartoon by Sara each morning this week.Sara Lautman is a cartoonist who lives in Baltimore. Her sketchbooks are on Instagram and her most recent collection is Ghost Sex.
View ArticleSmack Talk, and Other News
The wry, D.I.Y. branding of heroin. Photo: Graham Macindoe, via Wired In celebration of its many contributions to arts and letters, Boston has approved a plan to turn a section of the city into the...
View ArticleNo One Can Draw Runners, and Other News
A Greek vase with runners at the panathenaic games, ca. 530 BC. “Picture a person running. You’re probably picturing [it] wrong. It’s okay, you wouldn’t be alone. It turns out that artists have been...
View ArticleTake My Breath Away, and Other News
A still from Top Gun, 1986. Rivka Galchen on Kafka (or rather, his biography): “It has been said of Kafka’s work many times that the thing to remember is that it is funny. Kafka was known to laugh...
View ArticleThe Bleared White Visage of a Sunless Winter Day, and Other News
Karl Hagemeister, Havelufer mit Kahn im Schneetreiben, 1895. Which Thomas Hardy novel is the bleakest? A data-driven study looks at such criteria as “bleak events” (unrequited love, grinding poverty,...
View ArticleMourning the Striped Pig, and Other News
Time was you could find this fella on newsstands, getting sloshed. Fact: the American newspapers and gazettes of the nineteenth century had names that absolutely trounced their present-day counterparts...
View ArticleTake Me to the Burger King Spa
One way to spend your free time. I read that a Burger King franchise in Helsinki has opened an in-store sauna, serving Cokes and fries to visitors as they sweat it out, and my first thought was: I want...
View ArticleDiscovering Your Sonic Brand, and Other News
That’s your own personal sound, man. I’ve spent thirty painstaking years building my personal brand from the ground up: a signature blend of synthetic microfibers and dried-out pipe tobacco, shot...
View ArticleWe Don’t Really Know Anything About Anything, and Other News
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Girl with a Book, ca. 1875. William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect “the art of the glimpse,” has died at eighty-eight. “His...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Literacy: The American Library Association
Look for a new cartoon by Sara each morning this week.Sara Lautman is a cartoonist who lives in Baltimore. Her sketchbooks are on Instagram and her most recent collection is Ghost Sex.
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