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Before one can say anything about The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun), the "latest" novel from Vladimir Nabokov, the question of whether or not the novel should have been published must be answered. So here is my position on the matter:
Either way...
The American artist Ed Ruscha loved paradox and absurdity, as if his paintings were word problems and not visual images. Ruscha's visual style was grounded in commercial graphic design, and one step ahead of it. The word "Spam" appears in Actual Size...
One of the most popular posts I've ever written was on Dutch bicycles. Since my initial post I've talked to a number of people about Dutch bikes and urban bicycling in general. Clearly there's a huge interest in Dutch bikes in the US, even though I've...
The great film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews a book, Chris Welles Feder's In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles. Orson Welles led a famously messy life, but his offspring were born in orderly intervals: three marriages, each...
Today the Virginia Quarterly Review begins publishing a four-part account of the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2009, written by Jason Motlagh. The series begins with a bullet whizzing past the head of a snack bar manager at the Chhatrapati Shivaji...
