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Sex and the Automobile in the Jazz Age

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Thanks to the richness of the new recording media of film, phonograph, and glossy magazine, the imagery of the 1920s remains deeply etched on the popular memory.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, review - Telegraph

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Kurt Vonnegut, whose novels touched a nerve in the Sixties and beyond, called himself a space traveller and believed we were all adrift in our own lives, says Keith Miller.
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Words at Play

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"Did you hear about the Oulipian stripper? She delivered a lipogram before vanishing, with an invisible wink. If this joke means nothing to you, then you are—like myself and 99.9 percent of other humans—not a member of the exclusive club of verbal wrestlers, jugglers, and tightrope-walkers who call themselves the OuLiPo, theOuvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature."

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What's the point of political philosophy?

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Should we try to make political theory "relevant"?
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10 New TV Shows to Watch Out For From Upfronts Week

10 New TV Shows to Watch Out For From Upfronts Week | Skylarking Bookmarks | Scoop.it
This week, the broadcast TV networks announced their new shows for the 2013/2014 TV season. If you're overwhelmed by the choice, here are ten to watch.
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Illustrator Isol wins top book prize

Illustrator Isol wins top book prize | Skylarking Bookmarks | Scoop.it
Argentinean illustrator Isol has won the world's largest prize for children's literature, the 5m Swedish kroner (£500,000) Astrid Lindgren memorial award.
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Do-It-Yourself Language

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Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.
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"Many invented languages (...) belong to the real world and have (or have had) real speakers. These are conventionally political, a linguistic means of changing the established order."

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Boys

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The trouble with female celebrity profiles and the men who write them
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Into the Canvas

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Matisse wasn’t just a painter but an explorer, and each painting was a journey.
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The Smart Set: Colored Consumerism - January 7, 2013

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After the Industrial Revolution the world found something new to mass-produce: color.
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Gene Sharp: The Machiavelli of non-violence

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In a long life of scholarship and dissent, Gene Sharp has been imprisoned and persecuted, but never silenced. His ideas continue to inspire resistance movements across the world.
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The End of Courtship?

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Millennials are stuck navigating a new romantic landscape in the age of technology and the hookup.
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As Tourism Grows, Global Destinations Seek to Retain Uniqueness and Character

As Tourism Grows, Global Destinations Seek to Retain Uniqueness and Character | Skylarking Bookmarks | Scoop.it
As destinations succumb to overcrowding and cultural dilution, "geotourism" can be a positive force that benefits travelers as well as local environments and economies
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THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND

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Homage to Orwell

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"Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on. by Mick Hume"

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Enlightened monsters | TLS

Enlightened monsters | TLS | Skylarking Bookmarks | Scoop.it
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"The child may be father to the man, but how did a girl become mother to the monster? We continue to ask that of Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) before she turned twenty."

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The rationalist way of death

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Given that it has historically been annexed by religion, how should the non-believer mark death? Jonathan Rée dons his weeds and joins the procession. Illustration Jessica Chandler
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Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence

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Adam Gopnik considers how an 18th Century chess robot - the mechanical Turk - was more than just an elaborate hoax.
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Meet the Artist Who Blows Things Up for a Living

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With ethereal artworks traced in flames and gunpowder, Cai Guo Qiang is making a big bang
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What Is the Business of Literature?

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Editor's note: The following piece by Richard Nash will appear in our Spring 2013 issue, as the lead in a portfolio focused on the business of literat...
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As technology disrupts the business model of traditional publishers, the industry must imagine new ways of capturing the value of a book. 

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The Philosopher and the Terrorist: When Sartre Met RAF Leader Andreas Baader

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Jean-Paul Sartre's meeting with RAF leader Andreas Baader was long considered to be one of the philosopher's great missteps.
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The Radical Vision of St. Francis of Assisi

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Years before he died, Francis was considered a saint, and in eight centuries he has lost none of his prestige. Two new books show that the Church is still trembling from the impact of this great reformer.
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The 50 Most Amazing University Libraries in the World

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If there’s anything the editors of BestMastersPrograms.org love more than classes and books, it’s universities and libraries. It’s no surprise, then, that university libraries rank right up there among our favorite places.
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The Delights of Disgust

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Revulsion can be a many-splendored thing. Recent books on it by philosophers are missing some of its nifty, nasty nuances.
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Irritable Reachings: On John Keats

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A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.
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On Friendship

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The intimacies shared with our closest companions keep us anchored, vital, and alive
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