'Taxi' Bracketed Putting a Pimp in His Style: Harvey Keitel (left) talks up his sexual stable to Robert De Niro in 'Taxi Driver.' Twenty years later, director Martin Scorsese's seminal independent fil
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Scene from Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.); Quentin Tarantino (Getty); Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained (Weinstein Co.) ( The Root ) -- If you thought Quentin Tarantino was done with historical revenge fantasies after Inglourious Basterds and his latest, Django Unchained -- a "postmodern,…
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life,” Hemingway proclaimed in his short and memorable 1954 Nobel acceptance speech. In Death in the Afternoon (public library) — Hemingway’s exquisite 1932 meditati
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It struck me as I watched Ben Gibbard sing. He wasn’t struggling one bit to get his words out. Every note was flawless, every inflection perfect. Yes, Ben Gibbard has an incredible voice, but in a ver
Even though I attended grade school in my hometown, I always felt like a foreign exchange student. I grew up on a rural farm outside of town with a loud, eccentric family and lots of animals. My classmates baffled me completely. They were well socialized, worshipped popular television, and said the…
The Place to Disappear by Susan Orlean The New Yorker January 7, 2000 All languages are welcome on Bangkok's Khao San Road, including Drunkard. "Hold my hand," a man fluent in Singapore Slings command
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. January 2006 To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it'
By Timothy J. Carroll New information has come to light. We are bombarded with data. Living in the Information Age has its drawbacks. A baby is introduced to the world in the form of her family. As a
As a lover and maker of lists, I often agree with Umberto Eco that “the list is the origin of culture.” But, more than that, it can also be a priceless map of personal aspiration, as is the case of th
The Path To Shambhala At the beginnings of modern psychology stands the discovery that human beings are conditioned by their childhood experiences. Freud and others spoke of the unconscious, a normally inaccessible realm of the psyche which contains our past experiences and which produces very…
in Current Affairs, Music | December 9th, 2011 Leave a Comment Last week, composer Philip Glass and rock legend Lou Reed embraced the Occupy Wall Street movement. Initial video & audio clips cap
Do you know any fiction/nonfiction/poetry that has beautiful, aching language? Have you ever read something that just made you ache inside? Like a heartache blooming, I suppose. It can be a good or ba
The Berlin Study In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Universität der Künste, a historic arts academy in the heart of West Berlin. They came to study the violinists. As describ
David Foster Wallace’s teaching syllabuses don’t read the same as most Photo by Keith Bedford/Getty Images. Lately David Foster Wallace seems to be in the air: Is his style still influencing bloggers?
1Q84, Haruki Murakami's new novel, is 1,000 pages long and is published in three volumes. It took the author three years to write and it is possible, on an 11-hour flight from New York to Honolulu, to
This is weird. The documentary film-maker Errol Morris says he likes the Guardian – "It's my favourite paper" – but, sitting in the lobby of a sleekly manicured hotel in New York's SoHo district to ta
Why I stand up for Stallman When I was in high school, there was a guy named Sam, who totally didn't fit in. He was awkward, fat, didn't dress well. And it was kind of obvious that he came from a home
Search The Front Row December 15, 2010 Photograph by Franco Biciocchi / Alamy Sofia Coppola’s new film, “Somewhere,” (David Denby’s review of which, in the magazine, is available to subscribers) is No
STR/AFP/Getty Images Ai Weiwei holding debris from his newly built Shanghai studio after it was demolished by the authorities, January 11, 2011 Like many artists, Ai Weiwei enjoys provoking. It isn’t
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Zadie Smith rocked the literary world in her late twenties with her novel White Teeth, a look into various lives in contemporary multicultural London. She followed this up with the novels The Autograp
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Even if somebody knew everything there was to know about something, they could still never know what everybody else thinks they know about that thing. Everything is, then, ultimately transcendent of comprehensive human knowledge, for our very own existence makes it impossible for us to acquire a…
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