Five Reasons To Watch “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries”

by Janet Potter

Sex And Lies! The Iffy Science Of Measuring Calories

by Trevor Butterworth

Songs: Ohia, “Back On Top”

Lonely Planet Travel Guides Dumped At “Big Loss” By BBC

Idiot Bigot Folksinger Surprises Old Fans By Being Bigoted Idiot

Philip Roth Is 80

Philip Milton Roth is 80 today. Something something Newark, something something Jews, something something sex, something something misogyny, something something postmodernism and questions of identity, something something Nobel Prize?, something something alleged retirement. That should about do it.

Your Grandchildren Will Suck Because You Suck Already

Apart from your deeply-rooted pessimism, your inability to navigate the patent absurdities of life with any degree of competence or equanimity and your burdensome, at times crippling, tendency to depression, what terrible things are you…

N.O.R.E. and Large Professor, “Build Pyramids”

Blame English For Your Lack Of Self-Control

“Different languages have different ways of talking about the future. Some languages, such as English, Korean, and Russian, require their speakers to refer to the future explicitly. Every time English-speakers talk about the future, they have to use…

Writer Would Prefer You Not Mention Where She Lives, Because Categories Trouble Her

“Of all the things I’ve been called in my time, the one that surprises me the most is ‘California Writer.’ When I hear that, I look over my shoulder, certain that the phrase must apply to…

The Internet Talks To The Internet About The Internet, Makes Fun Of You

One of our greatest fears as social animals is that someone (or a large group of someones) might be mocking us behind our backs, in ways so silent or subtle that we might never know that we are in fact being…

Camera Obscura, Plus Jill Lepore on Secrecy and Alexander Garvin on Public Space

New York City, March 18, 2013

★★★★ The wind blasted right through a sweater on the way out the door. Heavy-coated toddlers, roped…