…is English, sweet English. Forget Mandarin Chinese. From “the unwritten tongue of Iron Age tribes in Denmark” two thousand years + more
…is English, sweet English. Forget Mandarin Chinese. From “the unwritten tongue of Iron Age tribes in Denmark” two thousand years + more
So. We’ve picked the best albums of 2014 in 10 different genres. Which means that, if your Christmas shopping list + more
Art? Not art? Play the game to find out! On this day in 1903, the world got a little smaller. Here’s Orville + more
In the penultimate installment of our annual roundup of the year’s best music, we finally get around to the classical and + more
From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), by former United States Poet Laureate Mark Strand, who died a couple of + more
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time—and really, why wouldn’t you?—you know we’re in the midst + more
Influential science fiction author Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Puppet Masters) was a + more
In the third installment of our survey of the best music of 2014 (go here for part 1 and here for part 2), + more
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than eating meat? Well, actually…breakfast sausage. But I don’t think it’ll mind + more
At one point on my way to the theater to catch Interstellar last weekend—perhaps the second time in a year the missus + more
We began our survey of the year’s music a little over a week ago with our picks for best avant-garde + more
2014 is winding down. Which means, of course, that it’s time for a review of the year’s best music. We’re going to + more
If you’ve ever read Lolita, you’ll want to read Sarah Weinman’s account of the 1948 abduction of Sally Horner. And if + more
“…there is nothing quite like an inscription in a book no longer owned by the dedicatee to capture the melancholy, + more
Only in Florida: A quadruple amputee is “armed and on the run” from authorities, a shoplifter managed to stuff a chainsaw down his + more