Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in Barcelona in 2003, leaving behind four story collections, three books of poetry, and ten novels and novellas; his reputation rests on w
In one respect, Pinocchio was a failure. The 1940 follow-up to Walt Disney’s world-beating Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs— which proved in 1937 that feature-length animated movies were not only possi
The Visceral Realist Over the last few years, Roberto Bolaño's reputation, in English at least, has been spreading in a quiet contagion; the loud arrival of a long novel, "The Savage Detectives," will
Until extraterrestrial relations are cemented, the term "world music" will be lazy and meaningless. What isn't world music? A track made from the regular pulses of neutron stars, perhaps? David Byrne,
Meself and Chips were down the Blind Ref one night when this young head-the-ball walks in. A young lad he was, a right looking head-the-ball. “Ay ay,” says Chips, sucking the stout out of his mustache
Dubliners at one hundred. An illustration by Stephen Crowe for de Selby Press’s new edition of Dubliners . It was a priest who first convinced me to read Dubliners . On the face of it, this might seem
A new exhibition at San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Published in re:form · 10 min read · Nov 6, 2014 -- Maps have always been essential. And contested. Today, they shape decisions both serio
Old Masters at the Top of Their Game After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign. Old Masters After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign. Photographs by ERIK MADIGAN HECK Frederick Wiseman, fil
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The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger an
This morning, Dan Saffer shared on Twitter that Smart Design SF is shutting down . Earlier this month, Adaptive Path surprised pretty much everyone who cares by announcing they were being acquired by
On our first date, he bought me a taco, talked at length about the ancients’ theories of light, how it streams at angles to align events in space and time, that it is the source of all information, de
If you know what #GamerGate is, I don't have to tell you. If you don't know what #GamerGate is, any description I give you will be attacked by hordes of partisans saying that I have described it unfai
This morning, "Track 3" from Taylor Swift's new album, "1989," rose to No. 1 on Canada's iTunes . This would not be notable—yet another Swift song, catapulting to the top of the charts—except for the
In January 2013, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras received an e-mail that would eventually change what the world knew about government surveillance. The e-mail came from Edward Snowden,
Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out of the Lincoln movie
Last spring, I attended the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Design Conference in San Francisco. Ben Kaufman, the CEO of Quirky , was one of the speakers in a conference that unabashedly celebrated consumption
At the supermarket near his home in central Virginia, Tom Burford likes to loiter by the display of Red Delicious. He waits until he spots a store manager. Then he picks up one of the glossy apples an
Jason Kottke wrote an end-of-the-year piece for the Nieman Journalism Lab called The blog is dead, long live the blog : Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally noti
Op-Ed Contributor Choking the Oceans With Plastic Credit... Alec Doherty LOS ANGELES — The world is awash in plastic. It’s in our cars and our carpets, we wrap it around the food we eat and virtually
The following is a feature article from the LARB Quarterly Journal: Spring 2014 edition. To pick up your copy of the Journal, become a member of the Los Angeles Review of Books at the $15 monthly leve
One of the most valuable lessons I've learned in business is that managing a hyper-growth company is like launching a rocket -- if your trajectory is off by inches at launch, you can be off by miles o
I have held off writing this blog post for some time now. It has been a long time in the making. A very long time. Part of my reason to hold off for so long is due to the very public nature of the medium and part of it has been that sitting down to write this forces me to confront the situation and…
Among Dugan’s many fans was Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, who suggested she go on a two-day visit of the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. The idea was to see if there might be a fit between Duga
In light of the ongoing policing situation in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed man by a police officer and how the response to the community protests is highlighting the mi
Their Autumn With Andre: Wallace Shawn and Lisa Joyce in ‘A Master Builder.’ Image by Bob vergara By Ezra Glinter August 10, 2014 Foregrounding a Vision: Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Almaric in Roma
And why simple manners can transform your relationships 9 min read · Aug 13, 2014 -- The Good Boy, 1837 M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big
Until recently, Bertrand Might was the only known patient with a certain genetic disorder. His parents began searching for others. Photograph by Phillip Toledano Matt Might and Cristina Casanova met i
Credit: Peter Dazeley Getty Images Michael A. Lombardi, a metrologist in the Time and Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., takes the case. In tod
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet o
Stewart is hungry. He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It's a prom
I have seen the future of iced coffee. There I was, wandering the grocery-store aisles—when suddenly, next to the kombucha, opposite the rotisserie chickens, I spotted something I never thought I’d li
News Analysis No Time to Think Credit... Clayton Brothers ONE of the biggest complaints in modern society is being overscheduled, overcommitted and overextended. Ask people at a social gathering how t
McSorley’s occupies the ground floor of a red brick tenement at 15 Seventh Street, just off Cooper Square, where the Bowery ends. It was opened in 1854 and is the oldest saloon in the city. In eighty-
In San Francisco’s “culture war,” both sides espouse oddly similar-sounding values. Illustration by Christian Gralingen In the spiritual geography of San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall—a glass-and-co
A debate that began (for me) nine months ago, finally gets real at #aftacon. 14 min read · Jun 15, 2014 -- The following is the text from a debate I participated in at the Americans for the Arts annua
Israel’s ultimate goal in the Gaza conflict is to convince Hamas’s leadership that future strikes on Israel are too costly to carry out — no matter how much the Islamic militant group might hate the J
Read our interview with Petrusich. Nathan Salsburg Guitarist, curator at the Alan Lomax Archive, producer of Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard In June I was in Whitesburg, east Kentucky, in Letcher Coun
Illustration by Katie Scott "Every sound hurts my ears," Jason DiEmilio wrote just before washing down dozens of hoarded pills with beer in the bathtub of his Harlem apartment in October 2006. "The so
V.S. Naipaul Time is education, even when they tell you it's sophistication. —Sly Stone You have never been to the Middle East and have no personal connection to it. Although Jewish, you have no family in Israel. Your parents are not Zionists but left-liberals of the civil…
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