SOPA and PIPA could spell the end for the internet as we know it. Read up on the legislation and contact your representatives.
No one writes fashion quite like Francesca Lia Block.
To be a music fan is to be on top of things; to be a reader of books is to be perpetually behind.
Just imagine the greatest works of Western Literature, only twice as good. Huck Finn has a raft twice as large, double the amount of rocket attacks in Pynchon, the Great White Whale with skin so perfect an alabaster that two entire chapters are devoted to its description.
The “sense” of books as “finished and complete” or “self-contained” is precisely that — a sense and nothing more.
Luke Skywalker starts on Tatooine, really having no idea about anything, and he ends up a Jedi amidst the rubble of an evil empire. Tim Tebow started out in the swamps of Florida, tossing pigskins and bible verses, and now he’s in Denver — but has he learned anything?
Full Stop Around The Web: Funerals, Partridges, and Waffles
Max Rivlin-Nadler on funeral conventions! Michael Schapira on Alan Partridge! Eric Jett and yours truly on The Situation in American Waffles!
Why New Hampshire Should Matter
I woke up Tuesday morning frustrated. No eggs in the refrigerator to cook for breakfast, heaps of work left unfinished, 8.5% unemployed, no healthcare, rising debt, and still no idea of who to vote for in the New Hampshire primary.
A Letter to My Anonymous Readers
For you, reader, the literary imagination is about more than just identifying with words on the page. It’s also an ethical imagination.
Qamar Hashim’s photos, especially the images of throngs twisting through the outdoor markets on al-Mutanabi street, are deftly composed and almost always evoke some just-out-of-your-fingertips sense of loss and fragility. Also he’s only eight years old.