It’s safe to say that Jorge Louis Borges could have lectured on anything from watching paint dry to waiting in line at the DMV and the end result would still have been magnificent. Here he is teaching a little Buddhism 101, with an accompanying lecture by his close friend and UC-Berkeley professor Amelia Barili.
No Recourse to Steel
Hello, Shalom.
Shalom Auslander believes. He can't really seem to help it.
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How to Win a National Magazine Award
Medium spells out how to win a National Magazine Award. Your article should be over 6,500 words. (It also helps if you are a man.) Deena Drewis writes about sexism in our categorizations of women’s writing.
The Old Man and the Fee
The descendants of Ernest Hemingway's famous cats have now become the attempted subject of federal regulation.
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Confessions of a Theorist
"This is the odd space these Theory Generation novels inhabit, making them peculiar novels of ideas. Their writers have read enough Theory at a young enough age to be in continued thrall to its power; they do justice to the disorienting shock those texts once had, and perhaps still have. Yet they are old enough to ironize (tenderly or bitterly) that power." Are you a member of the theory generation?
Just let it be weird.
Mark Mann on going to the gallery and looking at art: "The fact is, nobody knows what art is or why people make it. This is blatantly disturbing."
Boltanski’s No Man’s Land
French installation artist of the forgotten, Christian Boltanski, presents a new exhibit in New York: a vast landscape of old clothes and biscuit tins entitled No Man's Land at the Park Avenue Armory. Image gallery at The Daily Beast.
The Book of a Young Girl
Anne Frank’s copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is up for auction, including her signature on the book’s flyleaf. "This book really is the springboard from which her nascent literary career and dreams of being a writer were launched," said Nicholas Lowry, president of Swann Auction Galleries.
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