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Features & Reviews

On Why We Need Some Critics Like Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses puts the author’s critical and nonfiction prowess on display. It’s a collection of essays and writing from his newspaper column (which was titled Between Parentheses), compiled…

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Phone-Hacking Scandal’s Latest

With more unraveling of the Murdoch/phone-hacking scandal, the consequences and reverberations of the case have grown extensive and increasingly grave. The latest development came to light this morning when Sean…

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Video

David Shrigley on the Arts and Government Funding

(via Artsforum)

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Features & Reviews

The Search For Borges

Jorge Luis Borges’ writing is scattered among the annals of the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, among rare, historically-significant literary gems like hand-corrected proofs of Ulysses and…

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Features & Reviews

Trampoline Hall Lecture Series in SF!

The Toronto-based Trampoline Hall Lecture series (where people lecture on subjects outside their area of expertise) is on tour. The series’ founder, Sheila Heti, has got a book out with…

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Other

John Sayles’ New Film

John Sayles, who just blew our minds with a novel that is both physically and emotionally heavy, directed an indie film called Amigo, which is his 17th film. The movie…

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Politics

Phone Hacking and Its Here, There and Everywhere Influences

News International’s phone hacking scandal has regenerated all over the web as the scandal continues to unfold, tracing back the hacking and subsequent bribery that’s been happening for years–more and…

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Features & Reviews

Funny Humiliation Hype

Hilarious book trailers are becoming more and more common, which is a trend I totally welcome. Wayne Koestenbaum who has attained the ultimate trifecta of poet, academic and novelist, has…

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Other

Two Doses of Sugar

The Awl has got a sweet interview with none other than our very own advice columnist, Sugar, who is always ebbing our existential qualms with her eloquence. But what’s it…

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Features & Reviews

Traffic Reads

What more appropriate list could possibly come out of LA than books to read during gridlock? Especially an LA impending traffic crisis? This Friday marks Carmaggedon, which is the kind…

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Features & Reviews

Data Flow

This one goes out to all those who like their data visually organized before them and those who like design, and also those who dabble in “how-to” books. If you…

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Other

Restaurant Jobs

There’s bittersweet news on the job creation growth front—the Wall Street Journal released numbers that described the current state of hiring in this country, which revealed the growth in the…

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