Features
Wednesday, October 31 2007
Beating the System: Radiohead Gives The Man the Middle Finger
Like it or not, Radiohead's new marketing strategy is changing the way people think about digital music.
Reviews
Monday, February 2 2009
Future Missionaries of America by Matthew Vollmer
Like a throng of aging punk rockers at a Sex Pistols reunion concert, the characters all seem to possess the same type of aggressively apathetic outlook on life.
Thursday, December 4 2008
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Between English- and Japanese-speakers, dyslexics and normal readers, struggling children and fluent adults, Wolf shows the not-so-obvious differences in both brain structure and in areas of activation.
Tuesday, October 28 2008
Life: The Classic Collection
This collection emphasizes good photography over technical superficiality ("today's technological advancement, while fine, has done nothing to add excitement to a well-made picture"), and does not assert itself unreasonably.
Tuesday, August 5 2008
Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp by Stephanie Klein
In the sort of lip-biting, hair-tossing, impetuous manner for which teenagers are so famous, Klein indirectly highlights discomfort via wit, and pairs shame with over-confidence.
Thursday, July 31 2008
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Not until we are shaken out of the comfort zones of our Bluetoothed selves are we able to fully realize where we are, what we have done, and what it has done to us.
