Closing time
RIP, newcritics. May what began in the back room at the Algonquin one day be resumed via hologram.
RIP, newcritics. May what began in the back room at the Algonquin one day be resumed via hologram.
“[T]o me it just seems like a f*cking fortune.†Pasha Malla, recently interviewed by (new mom) Stephany Aulenback, wins Canada’s Trilllium Prize.
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John Berger donates his archives to the British Library; archivist travels to retrieve them from the writer’s French Alps stables. (Via.)
At Edge, Lera Boroditsky considers how language shapes the way we think.