On seasonal affective disorder, (still) sweating too much, and hating other people while also needing to pay your rent. Plus: a few words from special guest advicetician Douglas Coupland.
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Before Catch-22 became a huge success, Joseph Heller wrote the play that he believed would make his fortune. Fifty years later, the lewd production has almost entirely been written out of his career.
Matthew L. Miller's "Can't You See It, I Am One" gallery show is a challenge to—and rejection of—one of the central tenets of self-portraiture: that the artist himself is the subject.
The revival of The Four Horsemen Project uses dance, projection, and immersive sound to answer a call made by avant-garde poets 30 years ago.
How Alex from Target reminds us of a time when the Internet was a wide-open space of mostly innocent nothingness.
In this excerpt from her new book on religious violence, Fields of Blood, Karen Armstrong examines the psychological impact of World War I and the birth Protestant fundamentalism in the U.S.
Oh, like you've never cancelled an album because of a bad ecstasy trip.
Patrick Modiano’s Missing Person, like Christopher Nolan's Memento, is about the selection of memory; perhaps we're much worse than we recall.
How Marvel, Netflix, and others harness the past and future to keep us immersed in an anticipatory, amnesic, spectacular now.
Lenny Bruce, First Amendment crusader, broke ground for arguably every significant comic in his wake. Laughing at his material can seem like a civic duty. But does it hold up?
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