Just finished Philip Roth’s Nemesis—a short novel about a polio outbreak in Newark, New Jersey over the summer of 1944. + more
Just finished Philip Roth’s Nemesis—a short novel about a polio outbreak in Newark, New Jersey over the summer of 1944. + more
It would appear that the phrase “turkey baster” can now be employed as a euphemism.
Randall Munroe’s xkcd—”a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”—has as its entry today a ginormous chart about money. Though + more
A collection of 12 commissioned posters by leading UK artists celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled + more
“The Walking Dead” is the best show on television right now. On this there can be no debate. Where there + more
Courtesy of McSweeney’s, “Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation”: A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a + more
With the death—and subsequent beatification—of Steve Jobs, the launch of the iPhone 4S, and titillating rumors of what’s yet to + more
For a master class on documentary film-making—or just to see a phenomenal movie—don’t miss Senna, currently showing at the Magic + more
For those alarmed at the news that we’ve cut 12% of our workforce, fear not. That’s the other AMD. We’re + more
Reading this little exchange makes me long for the days when gas was cheap, men walked on the moon, and + more
In a piece about the future of punctuation, Henry Hitchings mentions the unmentionable: that graphic designers might be at least + more
Occupy Wall Street? Meh. This is a movement we can all get behind. Geeks Are Sexy has more.
We don’t do a lot of movie reviews here at the last word. Unless, of course, they happen to be + more