Surveying literature, art & culture from an altitude of 5,000 feet while traveling at 53 miles per hour

Main Menu

August 16, 2014

A quest for health, peace and morphine leads to an even stranger journey into a community that believes the Earth is hollow.

August 15, 2014

Remembering the Dirty Old Man and his relationship to Los Angeles.

August 15, 2014

The singer’s 1992 photo-book took the genre from nature documentary to pop controversy.

August 13, 2014

From religious German censors to French Enlightenment intellectuals, Europeans pan John Milton’s masterpiece.

August 12, 2014

The controversial author discusses everything from screenwriting to Sex and the City with everyone from Chuck Klosterman to Kanye West.

Social Media is Ancient

August 07, 2014

It just used to be in newspapers.

August 04, 2014

The prize’s first “global” longlist proves the skeptics right.

July 31, 2014

Today is Harry Potter’s birthday ... or so I am told.

July 29, 2014

Biographers fill in our favorite writers’ takes on big-brand fashion, the War on Drugs and other aspects of modern life.

July 23, 2014

Literally bumping into a crush reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace at Emerson College in Boston.

Featured