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Quote of the Day

“The more I work,” writes London-based artist and musician Martin Creed in the foreword to Works, a survey of his + more

Miscellany

So there’s a thing called the iPhone Photography Awards. And they just announced the 2018 winners. While we’re at it, + more

Time to Detox Your Masculinity

This article on young men and the “new narcissism” is worth a couple of minutes of your time. Turns out + more

An’ a one, an’ a two…

“In 1932,” writes Armand D’Angour, associate professor of classics at the University of Oxford, “the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to + more

Happy Friday!

Got a couple weekend reads for you. First, an article in the LA Review of Books that compels me to + more

We Had a Pretty Good Run, I Guess

You know, when I was a kid, I thought there’d be a flying car in every garage by now. Or, at the + more

Tomasz Stanko, RIP

Though I worked as a reporter for my hometown newspaper back when I was in high school, I never really + more

We Live in Stupid Times

All this straw-banning nonsense is, well…just that: nonsense. Given that 60 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from + more

We’ve Come So Far…

Apropos of nothing, really—and without further comment—let’s take a quick look at the state of American race relations in 1974, + more

Quote(s) of the Day

Yesterday I found myself at the Spalding Site of Nez Perce National Historic Park, where I read the following from + more

The End Is Nigh

Is it me, or is it a little ironic that World Emoji Day 2018 falls in the middle of Cannibal + more

Rise of the Machines

Tim Berners-Lee has regrets. From the very beginning, it turns out, the inventor of the World Wide Web “understood how + more

Weekend Recommendations

Thanks to a friend who lent me a copy, I’m finally reading Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in + more

Three for Thursday

Ethan Iverson interviews one of my favorite musicians; the New York Times features one of my favorite authors; the New Atlantis + more

Summer Reading

There was a time—not too long ago, in fact—when I thought that jazz was a dead art form. (I also + more

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