Kurt Vonnegut Way
NYC Community Board 6 has voted to rename the corner of E. 48th St. and 2nd Ave. after Kurt Vonnegut, who spent most of his writing life there.
NYC Community Board 6 has voted to rename the corner of E. 48th St. and 2nd Ave. after Kurt Vonnegut, who spent most of his writing life there.
New color e-paper produces up to 4,096 hues and “can be viewed from a full 180 degrees,” so that images “appear crisp, even when the display is bent.” (Thanks, Max.)
Only FOX could find something snide to say about a presidential candidate reading Gilead.
“Absalom and Achitophel,” John Dryden’s satirical allegory, disproves the idea that works of political propaganda can never be literature. The year was 1681. England’s King Charles had sired children hither and yon but had no legitimate heir. His Catholic brother, James, stood next in line to the throne. As fear of an alleged “Popish Plot” to kill the king and . . .
It’s no secret that Kafka was fascinated by Berlin, but scholars “haven’t quite done justice to the city’s place in his inner life.”