Traveling On Your Desert Island
Traveling can feel something like a desert island experience. The isolation of being so physically close to a bunch of strangers. The monotony of manufactured seats and two-dimensional landscapes going past the window. The waiting.
The Illuminating Lifestyle and Murky Death of Pablo Neruda
Lessons gleaned and suspicions raised regarding Pablo Neruda’s life and death.
Has there ever been a historical moment when the people living it were so deeply, painfully, purposefully aware of its historical momentousness?
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!