WHEN BOTH ARE STRANGERS
Let us say the young Lakes from Chicago are about to move to Strangetown, where John Lake will manage the new branch office his firm has just opened. Business is the usual reason for moving to a new community. John will, of course, meet a few people through business. If the town [...]
As is common knowledge among those who have both ears and a brain, WFMU is the greatest station in the history of radio. While the sound quality over the internet is of course far better than over the radiowaves, it brought me untold joy when I arrived in New York to be able to [...]
On a tour through Iowa farming communities, Rudolph W. Giuliani endured the test of making small talk.
From the Times news feed for Adam Nagourney, “Iowans Check for Dirt Under Giuliani’s Nails”, New York Times, 20 August 2007.
I am aware this will have little interest for most readers, but it looks like JSTOR is finally going to be enabling DOI for journals that wish to have their content identifiable in this way. This is very good news. JSTOR is easily the best online database for academic journals. It is [...]
Félix Fénéon spent part of the year 1906 writing unsigned news briefs for the French newspaper Le Matin. More than a thousand of these have now been translated and published by The New York Review of Books Classics as Novels in Three Lines. A selection—
Some drinkers in Houilles were passing around a pistol [...]
Among those Americans who care enough about politics to have registered themselves with The Democratic Party and intend to vote in the upcoming Democratic primary elections, 7 percent think that Barack Obama is a Muslim (CBS Poll). I find it very difficult to interpret this sort of information. In particular, I am curious how [...]
I was recently lucky to see (with Huw and Mike) the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914—1939 at the Corcoran in Washington DC. One part of the exhibition that I particularly enjoyed was the graphic design of the Russian modernists, and in particular the work of El Lissitzky, who I knew from his many [...]