Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 3, 2019)
...hopes on delivery drones, which will dot city skylines by next summer "Nibbling and cribbling ...": Lunching alone at work the latest productivity hack? The in-flight meal hall of shame...
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...Alasdair Gray Eden and After (1965-66) via Scottish National Gallery The coming Scottish independence vote has given new energy to the would-be national literary culture The crowd were...
Sunday Reading
...Bridge Pranksters Is About Embarrassment, Not Counterterrorism Israeli-Palestinian crisis: why this latest conflict cannot be considered a sideshow Israel-Gaza conflict: The secret report that helps Israelis to hide facts The...
The Art of Antarctic Cooking
...offers a fine example. An air of mystery surrounded him. No one knew his true name or age because he fraternized little, preferring the company of Toby, the expedition's pet...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of September 22, 2019)
...take up farming Medical students and residents circulate a petition condemning changes to nutritional assistance proposed by the Trump administration KFC begins test-marketing it's latest offering: a chicken-and-doughnut sandwich Swede...
Un(der)seen Cinema: Global Uprisings
...latest, After Gezi: Erdogan and Political Struggle in Turkey, released last week, covers the year of unrest and political turmoil that has followed the Gezi park occupation in Turkey. The...
Sunday Reading
...Education Debt in the Ownership Society Molly Knefel on Bloomberg's latest bargaining chips: low-income kids. The Rejectionist on ambition, and leaving, and being a girl artist: What I Did the...
Book Covers of the Year
...New York Times by “people in an around the world of graphic design.” I love John Gall’s cover for Houellebecq’s latest (slide 1) and Keith Hayes’ design for Bloodland (slide...
Party Time
...Whatever the system, time or place, any mandarin worth his seal cares about how time is segmented, marked, periodized, passed, and comprehended. Even so, Chinese time under communism is an...
Not Content with Crumbs
...Ibsen, and the success of the latest performance at the Metropolitan Opera House. Late into the night they talked and between outbursts of indignation or sympathy sipped strong cups of...
Is Entourage Sorry?
...a red-eyed shadow of his former self, passionless and alone, fraying at the edges. His latest project is a nondescript superhero flick called “Airwalker,” a pointed title for a character...
#FungusFriday
...To kick off our Interviews issue, we are giving you a double dose of shrooms for the weekend. Anna Tsing is an anthropologist whose latest book, The Mushroom at...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...means jack squat on beauty products—but did you know that "hypoallergenic" can be just as empty a claim? (I didn't.) ShopSmart's latest issue decodes 15 cosmetics terms. "Seal boy": Forgive...
Sunday Reading
...Appalachian Trail Faultlines, Black Holes, and Glaciers: Mapping Uncharted Territories “It is mid-day and almost time for the latest news from Radio Fresh FM in the rebel-held province of Idlib,...
This Week in Art Crime
...regularly adopt the moniker Monty Cantsin to carry out performances and exhibitions. Kantor’s Koons attack is the latest in a series of radical performances begun in the 1970s, in which...
An assortment
...there can be an item on hair-care products "for dark skin," especially in a British context, a column promising "the latest beauty trends for black and Asian skin." Hair texture...