June 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“The rise of generic distinctions has lately reached a climax of absurdity, such...”
– read the rest of Nikil Saval’s “Wall of Sound” for free at Slate.
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February 2011
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“The symmetry is powerful, if accidental. Both factions are marked by...”
– Hasids vs. Hipsters - Christopher Glazek
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“Plenty of nations have built great cars, but only America has built truly silly...”
– Brand New Cadillac by Daniel Albert
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“Auditions condition you to go on auditions.”
– “No Actor Parking” by Tess Lynch
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“In 2005, Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop did for hip-hop scholarship what...”
– Adam Mansbach
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“Dan Charnas’s massive and meticulous new book, The Big Payback: The History of...”
– Adam Mansbach
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“The Passions and The Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its...”
– Dayna Tortorici
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“The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason—that book was awesome. It came...”
– Keith Gessen
January 2011
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“No one knows how long the protests that began in Egypt on Tuesday will last, or...”
– “On Egypt” by Robyn Creswell
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“In the London Review of Books of January 28, Perry Anderson described Ching Kwan...”
– Nikil Saval
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“The most purely enjoyable book I read this past year was a paperback I’d been...”
– Mark Greif
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“I picked up the first of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet (1966–75)—four novels about...”
– Namara Smith
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“Between Camus, Sartre, and Genet, Americans rarely escape the educational system...”
– Christopher Glazek
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“A friend of Freud’s described one early psychoanalytic portrait as “so elegant...”
– Elizabeth Gumport
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“Eric Pooley’s The Climate War was the most exciting book about global warming...”
– Chad Harbach
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“I first stumbled across the poetry of James Galvin in an odd morass of a book,...”
– Charles Petersen
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“I would strongly recommend Joan Acocella’s Mark Morris (1995), which as a...”
– Carla Blumenkranz
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“Frank O’Hara has said, “I am mainly preoccupied with the world as I experience...”
– Ian Epstein
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“I’ve been going through Eudora Welty’s Collected Stories (1982). I read her...”
– Cory Merrill
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“Cutter and Bone (1976), by Newton Thornburg, is a California novel, and like...”
– Edward Morgan Day Frank
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“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their...”
– Sarah Grimke by way of Katherine Marino’s “The Long Revolution”
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WatchPaul Clemens was on The Daily Show!
He’s also on n+1!
Read an excerpt from his book here.
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“He attacked Amis. He attacked Barnes. He attacked the prim insularity of...”
– “Easy Romance” by Amelia Atlas
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“I had stumbled onto the internet in its purest form, the place where the degree...”
– “Bugs” by Elizabeth Gumport
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“To find the iconic professor, one has to first navigate a super-dense...”
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from “Pumpkin MoCA”
Jörg Immendorff “Student of Beuys” June 1, 2010–May 1, 2011
The following reviews of shows at Mass MoCA were originally published at Paper Monument.
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Watch“Some of these photographs linked back to weird communities where people posted their stories and self-appointed bedbug gurus dispensed wisdom.”
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“In the mornings, we watched another group of women hail jitneys to the outskirts...”
– “Holiday in Cambodia” by Celina Su
December 2010
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“Different banks quote markets in credit default swaps on sovereigns and they...”
– Learn more about how to short sovereign bonds in the lastest installment from HFM!