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T hey were burying people alive the first time I went to Machine Project. Someone had dug a hole in the ground, into which a coffin was... More >>
Screw the owls. Boy wizard Harry Potter may have The Order of the Phoenix and the Dementors’ kiss, but Thomas Pynchon, who is man... More >>
If people said they liked her artwork, Alix Lambert would, when she was a kid, immediately destroy the thing they had admired. Now that she is... More >>
When I was 17, I badly wanted to find the underground toilet graveyard. I was in college then, and it was rumored that somewhere beneath... More >>
Best Mall for (Actual) RatsA hulking eight stories of pastel-painted concrete and tinted glass — 30 acres of shops,... More >>
Best Armchair Travel for the Vacation ImpairedNow that the age of miracles is upon us, it is possible to go everywhere without... More >>
Bling is the sound of platinum clinking against gold, the flash of light reflecting off a million-dollar rock. It is at once everything... More >>
Even your floor can kill the environment. It’s an unsettling thought, the idea that furbishing your living room in mahogany over oak,... More >>
Two authors — one from London, one from America — discourse separately this week on what it means to be poor and black in a world... More >>
Some time ago, in the not-too-distant past, doomy rockers Death Cab for Cutie and author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) got together in... More >>
Adrian Tomine would like to apologize, on behalf of America, to fellow comic-book artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi — grandfather of alternative... More >>
Girl loves boy. Boy falls for girl’s gorgeous best friend. Girl steps gallantly aside, even agrees to be a bridesmaid at their wedding,... More >>
When individual units combine to form complicated, intelligent structures with well-coordinated divisions of labor, command hierarchies, and... More >>
Writers, by trade, are a solitary lot. That is, unless it’s April. The season is upon us when the people who make books (novelists,... More >>
By now, you either love Jonathan Safran Foer, or hate Jonathan Safran Foer. The literary world at large loves him, has in fact called him... More >>
Tom Anderson has 66,527,187 friends. By the time you finish reading this sentence, he will have 1 million more. Anderson, once a UCLA film grad... More >>
An earthquake in Los Angeles just isn’t an earthquake until Dr. Kate says it is. Kate Hutton, staff seismologist at Caltech’s... More >>
The nerd shall inherit the Earth. This much is clear at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where the regional finals of the high school... More >>
Illustration by J.T. SteinyWhen individual units combine to form complicated, intelligent structures with well-coordinated... More >>
