Confusing, Vexing, And Beautiful
David Byrne turns the deadly sins on their head to say something new about the world
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Cities in a Raw Young Century
Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city
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Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon books by tom wolfe discussed in this essay: I Am Charlotte Simmons HarperCollins (2004) 676 pp., $37.95 Hooking Up Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) 293 pp., …
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Hockey: The Great Literary Shutout
Hockey literature takes a bodycheck
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Burning Man
Books discussed in this essay An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 320 pp., $36 Buddha by Karen Armstrong Penguin 205 …
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A Manual’s Labours
The self-help sex book, like its first readers, has crossed middle age. With Viagra, both get a little lift
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The Photographer and the Philosopher
The traveller, I decided one day, is part photographer and part philosopher: his aim, as he sets out, is to catch some aspect of his subject – a tilt of …
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Spin Alert
Is an increasingly powerful public relations industry controlling the news?
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The Art of the Bad Review
We need more book critics who are fearless—though that alone won’t do
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The Bookbinder
Unlike the bowyer or the cooper, the bookbinder still performs a necessary function
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