Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
Member Pick
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
America’s Post-Frontier Hangover
America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?
Posted inMember Pick, Quotes
But Where Will We Put Uncle Larry?
When you bury a body, it stays in the cemetery. Cremation presents a whole new issue: where to store the deceased.
Posted inMember Pick, Uncategorized
Inside the Absurdity of ‘Spice World’
Sirin Kale illustrates the film’s appeal to a generation of adolescents who were struck by the Spice Girls’ inherent coolness.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
It Was Like Nothing Else in My Life Up to Now
In searching for meaning behind a random encounter and his mother’s death, Josh Roiland explores compassion.
Posted inMember Pick
Bird Man
On birding as an extreme sport, and how observing birds satisfies a “bone-deep, soul-deep need to classify and organize the world around us.”
Posted inMember Pick, Story
Bird Man
On birding as an extreme sport, and how observing birds satisfies a “bone-deep, soul-deep need to classify and organize the world around us.”
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction
The Walkable Multiverse According to Charles Jencks
On an abandoned mining site in Scotland, an architectural theorist attempts to bring the mysteries of the cosmos to life on Earth.
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story
The Walkable Multiverse According to Charles Jencks
On an abandoned mining site in Scotland, an architectural theorist attempts to bring the mysteries of the cosmos to life on Earth.
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction
The Wandering Years
Thoughts, observations, and reflections from the travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.