Happy Birthday to illustrator Arthur Rackham, born today in 1867.
Recent links of interest:
Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West (video)
Free speech triumphant! Ayaan Hirsi Ali delivered her Yale lecture with aplomb.
A Theory for Tattoos
From the body as physique to the body as text. And not just any text, but one demanding translation and critique.
Re: Memorial to Waste
"Dwight Eisenhower and Frank Gehry do not go together. Not at all. Not even a little bit." Gehry's buildings are a monument to Gehry and no one else.
Boswell's Postcards From a Hanging
Believing death to be both "wondrous" and "alarming," Boswell sought to experience it via public executions. What would Dr. Johnson say?
The 2014 MacArthur Fellows: "Genius" Grant Awardees
There are seven artists, writers, and musicians among this year's "genius" grant awardees. I'll assume my own letter just got lost in the mail.
From our pages:
The Minister of Paradox
The complicated, often conflicted, life of Alexander Herzen.
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