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Nothing’s truer than fiction, and the crazier the fiction, the closer to truth it sometimes is.             The Book of the Sultan’...

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son , 1955: to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply a the mercy of...

This is the awful phrase that sticks with me from Officer Darren Wilson’s testimony before the Grand Jury on Sept. 16, 2014. ‘All I see i...

For some authors, books seem heavy, as if the responsibility for having something big to say crushes their ability to say things clearly. I...

André Gorz’s prophetic analysis of the sharing economy, from 1988 – At the very point when a privileged fraction of the working class ...

A 10 question pop-quiz about the sharing economy 1.       If a four-star restaurant auctions its unsold daily specials on the inter...

Some books inscribe themselves on your bones. The minute I felt the caustic spray of the first lines of John Berger and Anna Bostock’...

That was my first reaction when I heard Donald Rumsfeld 's "known knowns" and "unknown unknowns" press conference. A...

It was his first big chance to differentiate himself from Mike Bloomberg, and Bill de Blasio blew it. Last week, Mayor de Blasio had a ...

Art, if you want a definition of it, is criminal action. It conforms to no rules. Not even its own. Anyone who experiences a work of art is ...

History is important. Here are the first paragraphs of the 3 main features in the Feb. 3, 2014 issue of  The New Yorker : 1. In 1994, Harr...

We are getting rid of ownership, substituting use. My idea was that if they wanted to fight (human nature and all that), they should do it...

I like a country where it's nobody's damn business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with. I like ...

1067 PacificPeople COLLECTIVE (hands-on, cooking, cornutopia) SCENIC SUPERFICIAL GARAGE RESORT ADDS A STATION October 10  - October 12,...