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Literature on the social impact of the internet has always struggled to keep up with the breakneck pace set by its subject.

Carlos Motta has spent the past few years creating an archive of documentary video portraits of activists and people who perform gender as a personal, social and political opportunity rather than as a social denunciation.

The designer Michael Graves, who passed away at the age of 80 on March 12th, was widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of postmodernism in architecture.

I took my broken wrist, along with my pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer, for a review at Addenbrookes. Not a good review.

A letter from X.

From Columbia Journalism Review: In the wake of the firings and resignations, Ezra Klein, the editor of Vox, argued that “policy magazines” like TNR were destined to fail because of the economics of the Web, and that Hughes had been correct to shift it to the Web. But Klein,...

The trouble with Theory, then, is not so much the terms in which interpretations are couched, but the fact that it privileges creating those accounts over the finding of patterns.

“The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists.” So begins Steven Pinker’s recent controversial essay on scientism and its virtues. At the risk of pedantry, it seems important to point out that the word “scientist” didn’t even exist in the period Pinker references

isis - ebola - obama hit by halal truck (where is duchamp?)

When I was two years old, or maybe four years old, it snowed in Las Vegas. The snow covered the concrete and the sand, and the alleyways between the casinos downtown.

A public event celebrating the recent boom in online criticism, and encouraging readers to get involved in the growth of digital literary culture. Panelists David Winters, Robert Barry, Marc Farrant, Russell Bennetts, Tariq Goddard and Michael Bhaskar.

“I crave the law”: the phrase has always struck me for its surprising vulnerability and emotional urgency. We Americans -- we white Americans are used to thinking of the law much as Portia does: a dispassionate system that disregards personal attachments.