Curiosities
May 4, 2012
I work nine to five and ain’t a damn thing changed 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Jeff Chang, whose Can’t Stop Wont Stop I just can’t recommend enough for anyone interested in the history of hip hop, has a great piece in the LARB on rap music and the 1992 LA Riots. The LA Times also ran a compelling essay on Toddy Tee, N.W.A. and other prescient west coast MCs, the [...]
May 4, 2012
More of the Little Prince 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Unpublished pages from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince have been unearthed, and they contain clues to a political reading of the children’s classic.
May 4, 2012
RIP MCA 0
by C. Max Magee
Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch AKA MCA has died at 47, due to cancer. Pitchfork has more.
May 4, 2012
Appearing Elsewhere 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
My review of Tom Bissell‘s Magic Hours appears in this Sunday’s NYTBR.
May 4, 2012
Elementary, Watson. 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Why does Sherlock Holmes continue to pique our interest?
May 4, 2012
The Scream 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Edvard Munch’s The Scream recently garnered a record breaking $119.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York. Despite the “tasty narrative potential” of the iconic artwork, the Pulitizer Prize winning art critic Holland Cotter thinks that the painting’s new owner spent their vast sum of money unwisely.
