Book Reviews, Movie Reviews, Music Reviews

Thin Air

Piecing together Nabokov’s 138 handwritten index cards.

Understanding Gainsbourg’s IRM

 

Has Charlotte Gainsbourg finally lived up to her family name?

Martin Scorsese's Living Dead

Why Scorsese's still got it.

Reading Minds

Neuroscience meets linguistics when Stanislas Dehaene studies how our minds decode language.

Are words forever?

Is Spoon’s frontman Britt Daniel in crisis?

A Different Kind of Weekend

On Contra, Vampire Weekend takes on late Godard.

Butchering Love

Dicing up Julie Powell's newest culinary obsession.

The Velveteen Man

A review of Up in the Air and why love will destroy you.

A City of Big Shoulders

Dominic Pacyga talks with Wunderkammer about his new book, Chicago: A Biography.

Three Movies a Week

David Warren reviews The Film Club by David Gilmour.