There is an excellent article in the latest Harper’s by Alec Wilkinson, a veteran staff writer at The New Yorker, describing the work of a husband and wife team who spend nearly two hundred days a year travelling America with a boat to search for the drowned. This is Wilkinson’s first piece published with [...]
Chad and EJ over at Three Percent have been hyping the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño to the point where I have been unable to resist going off to read something about his work. Most interesting to this unreconstructed lover of massive novels is news that his giant, posthumously published novel 2666 is about to [...]
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Last night I was very fortunate to see a performance of work by Ha-Yang Kim at Roulette.
The first piece, Metasmatter, was performed by a mixed sextet comprised of piano, flute, violin, cello, bass clarinet and percussion. This is a wonderful eclectic piece clearly influenced by jazz and Balinese music, and was performed with [...]
Somehow it slipped through my radar, but the monthly music bible otherwise known as Wire underwent a recent website renovation that included the launch of the weblog Mire. It’s just what you would expect from a magazine with the self-described intent to “wage war on the mundane and the mediocre”—in the first few months [...]
The long bare corridor was brightly lighted and empty, until a young man with a thin face, a slightly crooked nose, and a weary expression which embraced his whole appearance, passed them. —There, there’s the guy who was working on this, he’s one of the writers. Hey, Willie… But the weary figure went on. He [...]
Liane Schmidt, Baudouin Forgeot d’Arc, Gilles Lafargue, Damien Galanaud, Virginie Czernecki, David Grabli, Michael Schüpbach, Andreas Hartmann, Richard Lévy, Bruno Dubois and Mathias Pessiglione. 2008. “Disconnecting force from money: effects of basal ganglia damage on incentive motivation”, in Brain, Vol. 131, No. 5, May 2008, pp. 1303-1310. [DOI]
Abstract. Bilateral basal ganglia lesions have been reported [...]