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Join NOW!This week in San Francisco … Monday 1/16: Join International Workers of the World activists and scholars at Green Arcade for a discussion on the recent re-release of Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, including 40 pages of previously unpublished material. Free, 7pm The Green Arcade. Bay Area groundbreaker Youth Speaks holds its annual Bring in the […]
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Like most things I liked when I was sixteen, I first got into Adrian Tomine’s comics because of my older sister, who let me borrow her early issues of Optic Nerve. The series began as a set of self-published mini-comics, Xeroxed and distributed by Tomine when as a teenager in Sacramento. By the late 90s, though […]
...more“Arts & Letters,” the Spring issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, is perhaps the magazine’s most unabashed celebration of nostalgia yet, which is saying a lot for a publication that indulges as much in the work of Sappho and Seneca as it does in that of contemporary writers, artists and thinkers. In his opening essay, Lewis Lapham […]
...moreAt a recent n+1 panel discussion, Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood discussed God as trade, unmetaphysical writers, and intellectualism versus how religion makes you feel.
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