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Taking Liberties
... certainly an ode to excess.” But punk “also offered a sense of community and liberation, a refusal to bow to constraints and expectations.” Many of the alienated young souls of the postindustrial...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates teams up with Marvel
... writers who could support themselves as novelists.” Balcells had been in merger talks with the New York agent Andrew Wylie—as well as Vargas Llosa and the García Márquez estate, her agency represents...
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Bookforum talks with Sylvère Lotringer
...’s mother refuse to pay him a visit at Rodez or did he refuse to see her? Are his young admirers responsible for his death--they procured him laudanum--or was it due to anal cancer? You keep twisting and...
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School Daze
... R. Lewis, Anthony T. Kronman, Andrew Delbanco, Derek Bok, and others. Instead, he winds up celebrating liberal education’s contributions to the tech-pragmatist rampages he began by disparaging...
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Huffington Post aiming to add 900,000 contributors
...buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/sidney-blumenthal-played-under-the-radar-role-at-young-daily#.num7a7DQVX> on Sidney Blumenthal, adviser, "confidant," and controversy
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The Moynihan Family Circus
...th century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken...
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User Illusions
... And under that sling, her breasts were like young fawns, sheep frolicking in hyssop”--to the point where I found myself shouting, “Stop it, just STOP IT!” (That the fawn bit is lifted from the Song...
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Bookforum talks with Dale Peck
... voices. Peck’s 1993 debut novel, Martin and John, was released as Fucking Martin in the UK. His 2009 YA book, Sprout, went on to earn him the Lambda Award for LGBT Young Adult Literature and was a...
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FCC publishes new net neutrality rules
... broadband providers such as Verizon are likely to try to combat. “Every stage of life longs for others ,” Andrew...
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Little Shot of Horrors
... mechanism that is supposed to protect our young from a long list of once-common, sometimes deadly diseases. Over the past fifteen or so years, vaccination rates in parts of Britain and the US have...
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What are reporters learning in Ferguson?
...bookforum.com/review/8336> it for Bookforum, Andrew Martin called the book “carefully carved”). Torres persuaded a friend to accompany him to Iowa when he moved. “Sometimes it's just exhausting if you're going to...
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Bookforum talks with Phyllis Rose
... cad, and finds her experience shaped by Nabokov’s combative 1958 translation, with its voluminous footnotes and judgments. Pechorin has lasting appeal for “young readers,” Nabokov jabs. Determined...
