Columns
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The Eyes of Ginger Pritt
The first novel from poet Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners is a coming-of-age tale told in riveting prose.
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The Last Book I Loved: Museum of the Weird
When we were all eight, the girls in my grade decided we had secret worlds. One world belonged to me and my best friend Chloe, and the other world belonged to every other eight-year old girl; and the clash between…
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Writing Frenzies and their Social Effects
Maud Newton has some relatable writing pains that she’s been ruminating on. It can take forced isolation and sometimes jail time to produce tangible, significant results. This is the kind of isolation that can make the public realm difficult and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists are probably just hoarding all the time travel for themselves. Visualizing a life. There is totally (probably) water on Mars, hella (probable) water. Warning: human jell-o is coming. The one bright spot of the space shuttle program ending is…
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Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.
Every day, terrible things happen in the world. Every damn day too many people die or suffer for reasons that defy comprehension.
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“Would I Had Phrases That Are Not Known”
Disillusioned by the task of writing truly original? John Barths writes on the difficult task to write something new and distinctly untold, which is apparently one that is perpetually and historically daunting. “Originality, after all, includes not only saying something…
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Godard’s Breathless
You can watch the entirety of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless here and experience early nouvelle vague in all of its glory:
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Oslo in Mourning
Thousands of people in Oslo, Norway are mourning the loss of the 76 victims of anti-immigration extremist, Anders Behring Breivik’s shocking attacks last week. His plans were carefully delineated in a 1,500 page manifesto called, “2083: A European Declaration of…
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Ruminating on Murdoch’s Influence
This is a comprehensive roundup on the ways in which Rupert Murdoch’s handling of his media empire has impacted your life—via journalism, via politics, via the relationship of the public and the press. The phone-hacking scandal has prompted revelations about…
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Take A Break For Some Tabloid History
The philosophy guiding a great deal of mainstream media, that the public “likes entertainment better than it likes information,” is something I hear people gripe over when forced to watch CNN at the gym. But this isn’t an observation unique…