“Hell,” Jean-Paul Sartre famously said, “is other people.” I think he may have been on to something. But is it? + more
“Hell,” Jean-Paul Sartre famously said, “is other people.” I think he may have been on to something. But is it? + more
It took Estelle Betzold Doheny nearly 40 years to acquire a Gutenberg Bible. Yet when it finally arrives, “she resists + more
Been listening to some new-ish stuff I picked up in Portland a couple of weeks ago. David Torn’s Sun of + more
In January 2014 helveticka moved to its current location – a 1930 building that’s housed a number of tenants over + more
SEPARATIONW. S. Merwin* Your absence has gone through meLike thread through a needle.Everything I do is stitched with its color. + more
Planning a summer vacation on the Oregon coast? Maybe you should have a Plan B. “Roughly 100 miles off the + more
This is pretty cool (and by “cool” I mean fun for word nerds and, for everyone else, a painful reminder + more
Just when I thought the nerds of Silicon Valley couldn’t get any weirder, news of a super-secret brain-trust of highly + more
Bad news, folks: Naturalist Adrian Shine, who has led the Loch Ness Project since 1973, says Nessie doesn’t exist. “The + more
Well, this is depressing: Most of us now discriminate against members of the other political side explicitly and implicitly—in hiring, + more
In addition to torturing dissidents, starving millions of their own people to death, and running several countries’ economies into the + more
In War and Peace – “the greatest of all novels” – Tolstoy “shows us how our minds work even though + more
The most prolific art thief who ever lived? Over at GQ, Stéphane Breitwieser reveals his secrets. “In the annals of + more