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The Origin of Laura: Many Notecards Short of a Load

Nov 25, 2009
 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...

Actual Size

Nov 23, 2009
 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...

Dutch Bicycles Revisited

Nov 20, 2009
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...

An American Brat Eating an Ice Cream Cone

Nov 18, 2009
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...

The Mumbai Terror Attacks

Nov 16, 2009
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...


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