It's just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1958 words)
1. The Serbian Orthodox church in the Bosnian Serb border town of Bijeljina is a modest, dark gray building a few blocks from the central square. On Wednesday, June 28, 1995, local peasants and…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 1995
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1802 words)
I liked the look of Palawan on a map — the sausagey shape of it, the way it linked Indonesia to the Philippines, its great distance away, its apparent insignificance, its only one town-dot of…
PUBLISHED: May 2, 2004
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5316 words)
Returning to the roots of Southern rap, Killer Mike found his own extraordinary future. Despite it’s mythology, Stankonia is actually just a big studio in a plain office building on a…
PUBLISHED: May 16, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1381 words)
In February 1931, Samuel Beckett wrote to his friend Thomas McGreevy to acknowledge receipt of McGreevy’s new book. He was sorry he hadn’t done so already, explaining, “My teeth…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4245 words)
I have been told specifically that I will be able to punch Justin Bieber in the face. It is mid-March, and I am standing on the patio outside Conway Studios in Hollywood, where Bieber is recording…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1005 words)
WOOY!! After decades of attempts to publish all of George Herriman's full-page Sunday Krazy Kat comics, Fantagraphics, the Seattle comics publisher, has done it. In 13 volumes, we get all the Krazy…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2525 words)
I have been told specifically that I will be able to punch Justin Bieber in the face. It is mid-March, and I am standing on the patio outside Conway Studios in Hollywood, where Bieber is recording…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3541 words)
Tauba Auerbach, RGB Colorspace Atlas. (2011) I once heard Leon Botstein, the President of Bard College, compare books to stairs. “They’ve invented the elevator,” he said,…
PUBLISHED: May 16, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4951 words)
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