Scenes from the People’s Bailout The People’s Bailout raised enough money to abolish 5 million dollars worth of medical debt… Read more »
Republicans release groundbreaking copyright reform memo; withdraw it 24 hours later After the SOPA and CISPA debacles of the last year, no one expected that it would be the Republicans who came up with a decent proposal for much needed copyright… Read more »
Recycled books make for eco-friendly art Eco-Artware, a store dedicated to environmentally friendly gifts, has posted a series of photos on its website, Eco-Artware-Notes, of several projects that recycle discarded books. It features a couple installations… 1 / Read more »
And then we all giggled at the sperm-squeezing chapter I am unsure of Moby-Dick’s place in our canon. I have my doubts about whether it is the Great American Novel, or even whether it is Herman Melville’s best work.… Read more »
Is Philip Roth’s retirement for real? As has now been widely reported, Philip Roth is done with writing. In an interview conducted in his upper west side home last week and published yesterday in The New… Read more »