Finding Babel in the Drawer
My father, Irving Howe, wrote this essay on Isaac Babel in the late 1980s, so far as I can tell, as the introduction to a book...
The Tender Trap
Sometime toward the end of the twentieth century I dimly recall in the culture and among the people I knew a generationally ambient feeling that marriage...
Labors of Love
A few years after publishing his superb translation of Dante’s Purgatorio (2000), W.S. Merwin told me he was toying with the idea of also translating Paradiso,...
Inventing the Science of Race
In 1712 King Louis XIV of France signed the lettres patentes that formally established Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and Arts, a social club...
A Taste of Home
When I was growing up in the late-era USSR, pirozhki were the quintessential comfort food. Descended from statelier, larger pierogi pies, these small buns with savory...
Disney’s First Lightyear Movie Knocked Buzz off His Pedestal for the Better
Lightyear, Disney and Pixar’s upcoming animated feature about the “original” astronaut whose life story inspired the line of toys bearing his name, seems very much like...
Heinz Made Ketchup from Semi-Martian Tomatoes and We Want to Eat It
Space may well be the final frontier but it’s a great place to make ketchup. Astrobiologists just grew tomatoes in Mars-like conditions (as in here on...
Surprising Discovery of Two Ancient Galaxies Exposes Our Cloudy View of the Cosmos
The presence of two previously undetected galaxies some 29 billion light years away suggests our understanding of the early universe is upsettingly deficient. Read more… Source...
Ralf Rangnick – The ‘Godfather of German Coaching’ to take the reigns at Manchester United
Last Updated on 25 Nov 2021 9:27 pm (UK Time) Former Lokomotiv Moscow technical director, Red Bull architect and successful Bundesliga manager Rangnick replaces Michael Carrick...
Cowboy Bebop’s Hunt for a Visual Style Is a Pain in the Neck
There’s a lot that feels off about the live-action Cowboy Bebop, a show dancing to a rhythm that’s close to, but not quite, the smooth one...
