I don’t know if anyone has noticed this yet, but it is Autumn. The bitter lapse into everyday life. Wayne Levin’s haunting underwater photography. How to convert old factory buildings…
Frank Miller’s Charlie Brown (page 1, page 2). Dream project: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers. The fall of the Iron Curtain, in pictures. Donald Barthelme’s recommended reading list. (via kottke.org)…
In a Los Angeles Times article published last month, Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, comments on a study by University of Pennsylvania economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers…
Magazine offices are the new Detroit. A quality short story. The winner of the second annual World Building of the Year award: the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre. NY Times on the…
Curtis White’s essay in the new Tin House, “A Good Without Light,” contemplates the dark side of sustainability. In a word, he argues that sustainability, as a philosophy, is a…
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Rivka Galchen at Harper’s Magazine’s The Family Table, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk, Mary Gaitskill, John Turturro, and Eric Bogosian at…
I’m sure they’re dolphins, Doug. Well then you can slather some SPF 80 on your pussy and sit here on the beach with the rest of the moms. I rented this boogie board for…
In 1924 the Navy was ordered to listen for martians. The Italian Futurist pasta sauna. You’ve probably seen things like this a million times, but damn it sometimes you just…