Bodies, Commerce, Complicity: Porn Star Dale Cooper

by Bob van Toor

Anthony Weiner And Human Dignity Debased Before A Hungry Audience

by Brendan O’Connor

HAIM, “The Wire”

The Most Important Part Of A Promotion Is Asking “What Could Go Wrong” Before You Do It

“Twenty people were injured, with seven sent to hospital, when a promotional stunt in Seoul for LG’s G2 smartphone went wrong, the company has said…. LG released 100 helium…

“I’m Not The Kind Of Girl”

“Even her physical beauty seemed ironic; she seemed to deploy it as an analytical torch, a secret agent, dismantling the stereotypes she cheerfully traversed. In the Polaroid snapshots that Andy Warhol took of her in 1980, she gazes at him — and at the viewer — from across the moat…

It’s All Readers Reading Things Tonight, So…

The High-Stakes Crushed Or Fried Debate

“A high-octane debate has broken out among the world’s physicists about what would happen if you jumped into a black hole, a fearsome gravitational monster that can swallow matter, energy and even light. You would die, of course, but how? Crushed smaller than…

New York City, August 12, 2013

★★★ Dawn’s fingers were the color of Tang powder, at the edge of a leaking gray sky. The dimness could…