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“So, basically, I’m like this meat in the ocean, and you’re the sharks.” So saith columnist, Melville House author, and all-around great sport Owen Jones, in a recent video in which… Read more »

I see no conflict whatever between science and religion. They come at the world in completely different ways with different purposes. Of course, the purposes overlap to some extent: understanding,… Read more »

Because Mondays are hard, because fall is taking its time, and because you deserve some awesomeness, you should probably clear the next two and a half hours or so and watch… Read more »

In what’s feeling like the hottest summer in the history of the American republic, it’s fascinating to watch this (somewhat low-quality) video of two major writers—linguist and political theorist Noam Chomsky, and novelist… Read more »

This remarkable video footage, shot in Moscow in the early seventies, shows the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam talking — in surprisingly excellent English — about many things: her feelings about being… Read more »

Martin Seay’s The Mirror Thief is enjoying a rapturous wave of publicity. In the The New York Times Book Review, Scarlett Thomas calls it “audaciously well-written…the book I was raving about to my… Read more »

The media in 2016 can be an overwhelming echo chamber. Talking points are drained of meaning after you’ve heard them day after day, for months on end. The atomization of… Read more »

It was only a matter of time. Queens rapper Action Bronson, who shot to fame on the basis of his lyrical talent, love of food, and aural resemblance to Ghostface, is… Read more »

Look around you. Yes, you. The odds are, there’s a Harry Potter book within ten feet. Coming along just before the ebook boom, J.K. Rowling’s immortal series lives on in our hearts… Read more »

The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »