From MediaPost: on why Harper’s is still a great magazine. It’s really quite stunning to contemplate the vast choices you’re offered for $6.95 at an airport newsstand. Of course, when it comes to gravitas that separates a magazine from the pack, Harper’s offers plenty. For starters, it’s been in print since 1850 (the year Zachary [...]
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From More Intelligent Life: Time for a Spark Revival. Despite her many awards, her damehood and her distinguished champions-Evelyn Waugh saw her as a writer “whom people rejoice to introduce to their friends”-Muriel Spark remains outside the highest literary firmament. Her poet’s ear makes her books deceptively slight: they deal with life and death, God [...]
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What’s a guy gotta do to be be cool without looking like he cares?
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The joys, and pros, and cons of participating in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).
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Our most fearless and occasionally feckless contributing editor reports on an exciting cultural phenomenon.
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From More Intelligent Life: Last Days of the Polymath. The word “polymath” teeters somewhere between Leo¬≠nardo da Vinci and Stephen Fry. Embracing both one of history’s great intellects and a brainy actor, writer, director and TV personality, it is at once presumptuous and banal. Djerassi doesn’t want much to do with it. “Nowadays people that [...]
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