Thomas Mallon reviews Joshua Kendall's new biography of the eccentric Peter Mark Roget, creator of the Thesaurus, in this weekend's New York Times Book Review. The review is Obsessed (Agog, Beset, Consumed, Driven, etc.) and contains the wonderful Thesaurus-aided comment...
It's sad news when an interesting, highly specific magazine like No Depression shuts its doors. 2008 New Voice Silas House wrote for this publication concerned with "alternative country (whatever that means)". When Janna Levin heard this she got very excited,...
...tensions between science and art
"I have seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by small talk."Annie Dillard, on why she was introducing Jake Silverstein, then getting the hell off the stage. "You don't judge a painting by how precisely it portrays the object...
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