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Features & Reviews

An OG Titan of Industry and the Future of the American City

Before Dick Fuld oversaw the implosion of Lehman Brothers, and before John Thain had to apologize for accepting an outrageous bonus from Merrill Lynch, there was Frank Woolworth. The gloss and…

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Features & Reviews

Complex Innovative Literary Prize

The Warwick Prize for Writing is an “innovative new literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given biennially for an excellent and substantial…

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Music

Music Matters: Random Music Links by Chris West

Courtney Love is insane! No, really, while I realize this is not a news flash, you must check out her MySpace site. Her official home page doesn’t seem to have…

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Why You Should Not Be Afraid to Read “Little Women”

If anyone could be said to have really written in a garret, alone and oblivious, it is Louisa May Alcott.

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Other

Best of Shouts & Murmurs (from the past year or so)

The Shouts & Murmurs section of the New Yorker is reliably witty, wry, and short. For some, it is the pre-game to reading the magazine, and for others, the best…

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Tokyo Underbelly: A Link List

If you have seen photographs of neon-soaked Tokyo streets, you have most likely seen Shinjuku, and if you know anything about Shinjuku, you will know Kabuki-cho. Kabuki-cho is Tokyo’s notorious…

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Features & Reviews

The Universal Threat of Loneliness

“The End of Solitude” by William Deresiewicz begins with the question, “What does the contemporary self want?” He answers after two sentences: “Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming…

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Just in Time! Special Valentine Unit

Brandon Bird has the perfect cards for that special someone. If that special someone is addicted to watching Ice-T always get his man. And if that man is Bob Saget.

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On Teaching Poetry to Women in Prison

I was nineteen. Prison seemed sexy and foreign—as did most forbidden things.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jack Pendarvis

I didn't so much experiment as flounder around. But experiment is a nice word for it!

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Other

Different Sorts of Rubbish: Super Bowl Edition

George Orwell would not have liked the Super Bowl. In his 1945 essay “The Sporting Spirit” he writes, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound…

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Features & Reviews

Link to Drink: What Christopher Hitchens Gave Up God For

Rarely have I seen a Christopher Hitchens TV interview in which the atheistic author of God is Not Great isn’t knocking back an ice-clinking glass of whiskey of some brand or another. Yet, I…

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