In Defense of the Memory Theater
/Our bookshelves are a hedge against our failing memories, and as such, an extension of our minds. Nathan Schneider explores if and how this sacred role will be preserved in the age of digitization.
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Our bookshelves are a hedge against our failing memories, and as such, an extension of our minds. Nathan Schneider explores if and how this sacred role will be preserved in the age of digitization.
Read MoreIn his regular column, Brad Jones offers a warm tribute to a Jazz legend who has delighted audiences for over sixty years, from Duke Ellington's band to the Tonight Show
Read MoreRoses: they might have smelled sweet to Shakespeare, but what did he know about the perfume industry? Our regular olfactory column takes on the biggest scent cliche of them all.
Read MoreThe so-called Tea Party would like to dump President Obama in Boston Harbor - but even ordinary politicians often misunderstand him. The reasons are simpler than you think.
Read MoreA conversation and twenty cigarettes with émigré poet and Fulcrum editor Katia Kapovich
Read MoreA Conversation with Carissa Halston and Randolph Pfaff about his images for their short play "Patsy"
Read MoreAt her trial, Anne Boleyn was accused of adultery, witchcraft, and incest - charges long mocked by historians. But a new book asks: is it possible Anne was actually guilty?
Read MoreFor good or ill, when Martin Amis writes a new book, critics swarm to it with strong opinions pro and con - a perfect setting for a clarifying Open Letters Peer Review!
Read MoreThere are options regarding /the ice. We can lick it or cross it. Further information /when you want it. Information always blinking. /A chime that rang.
Read MoreWhen colonial tensions were at a boiling point, the British garrisoned troops on Boston Common and put the city under military occupation - until a certain Massacre, that is.
Read MoreDuring the American Revolution, colonists ran blockades, fought sea-battles and ... sent in an attack-submarine? No, it's not time travel - it's the amazing story of the Turtle.
Read More"Pride" by Randolph Pfaff and Carissa Halston
Read MoreIn Craig Dilouie's new thriller Tooth and Nail, American troops are called home to New York from war-torn Iraq, only to find there are some horrors far worse than those of war
Read MoreMad Men's Betty Draper is spoiled and uppity, but also tragically thwarted by the chauvinism of the era. As Season Four begins, her fate on the show is coming to a head.
Read MoreIn Absence of Mind, Marilynne Robinson explores both the dynamics of faith and the complacency of recent anti-faith screeds. But is her own book something of a fall from grace?
Read MoreReaders have adored Truman Capote's iconic Holly Golightly; they might be amazed, then, by how much Capote borrowed from Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles
Read MoreThe final book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, leaves no doubt that Lisbeth Salander, his punk hacker protagonist, has no equal in the annals of crime fiction
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