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Pont Blank

By Kevin BreathnachFebruary 2, 2012

This is the story of how I came to be profoundly disillusioned with the modernist photographic tradition. Through careful study of their work, it came to my attention that Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, men whom I had once taken for heroes, were involved in the systematic corruption of the

The Pitfalls of Indie Fame

By Malcolm HarrisFebruary 1, 2012

Editor's note: The following is a piece from way back in the TNI archives, Malcolm Harris writing about Chuck Klosterman in 2001. When we saw the similarities between Klosterman's take-down of tUnE-yArDs and Harris's article – well, we're not accusing anyone of anything, we leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.

Now Playing

By TNIJanuary 21, 2012

January 21, 2012: Snow Day "Team The Best Team" Doomtree "Colorless Sky" Desire "Swerve..." Shabazz Palaces "Cop Killer" John Maus "Bill Hickman at Home" Bad…

"The actors remain actors"

By TNIJanuary 21, 2012

Broadly speaking, there are two ways to shoot a sitcom. There’s the traditional multi-camera style of “I Love Lucy,” “The Cosby Show” and “Seinfeld” —…

Un(der)known Writers: Martin Luther King Jr.

By TNIJanuary 15, 2012

"While he was peacefully snoring up on the mountain, a great revolution was taking place in the world - indeed, a revolution which would, at points, change the course of history. And Rip Van Winkle knew nothing about it; he was asleep."

Un(der)known Writers: Anna Kavan

By TNIJanuary 4, 2012

Anna Kavan was born Helen Woods in Cannes, France. She perceived herself as deeply unloved.

The Revolution that Wasn't

By Matt PearceDecember 21, 2011

I am not a hero. I was only using the keyboard, Mona, on the internet, I never put my life in danger, the real heroes are the ones on the ground. … This revolution belonged to the internet youth, then the revolution belonged to the Egyptian youth, then the revolution belonged to all of Egypt.

Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011

By Amanda RivkinDecember 18, 2011

Where are the great men? Are we beyond the point of elevating the individual over the group, or are there simply no more individuals? Marc…

Don't Stop Beliebing

By TNINovember 21, 2011

If it were opportunistic, it would have a better beat. It’s so earnest and guileless that it’s completely unappealing. It really shows how pointless endorsing Occupy Wall Street is as a gesture. You also can’t dance to it.

What Is an Artist?

By Patrick HarrisonNovember 8, 2011

A glossary of artists

Redefining the Right Wing

By TNINovember 3, 2011

Let me begin by agreeing that political conservatism is typically born in reaction and backlash...Postwar conservatism in America has certainly been defined by a series of reactions against rapid or large-scale social and political changes.

Scenes from Occupied Oakland

By Christopher ChittyNovember 1, 2011

Had Oakland become a war zone? Did the protesters’ marches up and down Broadway and Telegraph and their attempts to reoccupy the plaza constitute a riot? How easy is it to shift the line between what is peaceful and what is violent in what activists are just calling “the movement”?

Money, Sex and Tweens

By TNIOctober 26, 2011

Two YA novelists discuss the gender politics of literature’s biggest growth industry John M. Cusick (JC) is an editor at Armchair/Shotgun and literary agent specializing in YA…

Youth is Never Reactionary

By TNIOctober 15, 2011

Youth is never reactionary; youth is progressive in time and hence always in the avant garde, hence never wrong in spirit, hence never to be…

Advertisements for Norman Mailer

By TNIOctober 3, 2011

lareviewofbooks: Jonathan Lethem, on his obsession with an immortal literary character. 1. There once was a boy who fell in love with Norman Mailer, a writer who…

Obituary: Borders Books and Music

By Malcolm HarrisSeptember 23, 2011

The Palo Alto Borders was my psychogeographical center. It seems strange to say that of a store, never mind an outlet of a giant and…