May 30, 2012
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Survival Training – Colson Whitehead, author of Zone One, on watching horror flicks and b-movies, in science fiction edition of The New Yorker: It was survival training. “A Clockwork Orange,” which I saw several times on HBO before I was ten, … Continue reading
August 24, 2011
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Lumps of Language — John Sutherland reviews The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture by Gary Saul Morson for Literary Review: We think of our use of language as ‘fluency’. There are, however, congealed lumps floating in it and, … Continue reading
August 18, 2011
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Photojournalist Don McCullin is internationally renowned for his images of conflict. But a new exhibition of his photographs at Tate Britain focuses on three other aspects of his work: his first foreign assignment in divided Berlin in 1961; documentary work on … Continue reading
June 15, 2011
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An interview with the talented Allison Colpoys, book designer at Penguin Books Australia, at The Design Files. Particular Beasts — A brief interview with art director John Gall about teaching book design: Each book is its own particular beast that … Continue reading
March 12, 2011
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James Fallows, veteran journalist and author of Breaking the News, has a lengthy article in The Atlantic on Gawker and the effect of digital media on journalism: One by one, the buffers between what people want and what the media … Continue reading