A Eulogy for Editor & Publisher
“It’s a sad day, but in a strange way the death of Editor & Publisher gives me hope for the future of journalism. Because they showed us a blueprint, that…
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M4W-The Power Glove
I am going to guess that there is no file on this usage in Nintendo’s Product Safety Department. You gotta respect it: dude knows what he wants — and just…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #9: How We See the Aged
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) How We See the Aged A woman pulls at the pilled pleat of her seersucker skirt with one hand,
Thomas Allen’s Pop-Up Pulp
The January 2010 Harper’s Magazine (print) features a few photographs from Thomas Allen’s “Epilogue,” the last in his long series of photographs of transformed pulp fiction book covers. This was…
BLICKFANG – The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin
Illus. and design by Oskar Garvens, book cover, Germany, 1925
Funny Women Around the Web
To start a revolution, we need more than just a column. Occasionally we’d like to link to particularly hysterical funny women all over the Internet. Edith Zimmerman at The Awl…
Morning Coffee
Something happened and Morning Coffee missed the schedule. We’re not sure why. Ruben Brulat takes some pretty amazingly epic self-portaits. Dutch library design porn. Monkey syntax! Eight ways in-vitro meat…
The Rumpus Review of Bad Lieutenant
In Herzog’s non-remake of Bad Lieutenant, Nic Cage tumbles into the farthest reaches of drugged, lawless mania, resembling a coked-up Willy Wonka.
John Crowley’s Little Lessons From The Masters
“He writes with a typewriter, beginning with the first page, with a situation he has been brooding about, and some sense of the implications or characters involved, but no real…
What Buildings Would You Ban?
“Fear, on one side, of watching Europe turn into “Eurabia” —even if the demographics don’t justify such worries—and, on the other, of seeing centuries’ worth of social liberalization—including women’s suffrage…