“Jess Row…snidely suggests that, for writers of “a certain age — my age . . . born in the 1970s,” Doctorow “is familiar more by reputation than by any direct…
“The bonus of having a network run through machines is that people can spit and not feel scared, and that both allows a level of ease of discourse that leads…
“I told him that I had loved Freedom, which is true and would have been a great ending point for our exchange. So it’s difficult to articulate what possessed me,…
Every year during National Poetry Month (you knew it was National Poetry Month, right?), Kelli Russell Agodon organizes the Big Poetry Book Giveaway. You may remember Kelli’s name from our…
That’s about all the praise I will ever give the Soviet Union–I’m not a fan of totalitarian regimes, no matter how much they claim to care about well-being of the…
A discovery might make hydrogen fuel cells much cheaper. There’s a rumor–and that’s all it is–of a Higgs boson sighting. SpaceShip Two completed its longest glide test to date. The…
Because there are not enough cat sites on the internets. Dahlia Lithwick asks how judges can decide if threats against their colleagues are protected by the First Amendment. Remember Senator…
Important: meet the coolest dude who ever lived. Friday is a good day to watch the old Model T assembly line in action. Old pictures of LA are some of…
Way to go fuel efficiency! We aren’t the only ones born that way. News story: old maps are pretty cool. Chicago jellyfish! Also here is an abandoned house in Belgium.
We are deeply saddened to learn that Jeanne Leiby, writer, teacher, and editor of The Southern Review died yesterday in a car accident in Louisiana. She was 46. Our thoughts…