...what Pop Art anticipated has come to pass, that all consumable stuff becomes art when mediated and subjectified, at least if you take art to mean something that is desirably...
...subway, freshmen using to bookend their dorm-room shelves, and house husbands discussing at the laundromat. Should this come to pass, Knausgård would not only become one of the most famous...
...be aware at each instance that someone else might be affected by what I write, that someone else might choose to write it another way, or choose to pass it...
...of the compliment. Robert Herbert, an American sociolinguist, published a fascinating study about the different ways men and women treat compliments that illuminated some of my experiences around complimenting women...
...study, 85 percent of people stopped and searched by NYPD officers in 2010 were black or Hispanic men, though they make up only a combined 45 percent of the city’s...
...events which have just come to pass in Paris to the clubs and the reunions ... to the desire of those people to live better than their condition allows.” A...
...by easyJet as added extras. There is a charge for the privilege of paying by credit card, and a fine if you forget to print your boarding pass or have...
...from the utopic euphoria of the freeways. People pass by entire communities, driving on overpasses that traverse intersections, seeing only the roofs of buildings and palm trees against the Los...
...but there was nowhere else I was so free to grow up. Borders became for us the mythic “third place,” not school or home, where young people could encounter each...
...I’ve studied the histories of Brøderbund and Carmen. And the first time — the first time — I encountered the name Cathy Carlston was when I began researching this essay,...
...companies, I'm not quite sure why I haven't just started making my own beauty products. Whenever that time comes, this comprehensive list of 30 recipes should come in handy! And...
...SH: Yeah, exactly. Which is fun. But also the title didn't even come to me until three years of working on the book. I'm not sure what I was trying...
...example of the coercive function of the bright signs and friendly emails put out by career services offices, but I make sure not to laugh too hard, since I can’t...
...Elvis's sheer professionalism in this era, his refusal to sneer publicly at material far beneath him. Sure, he was on loads of pills, and the epic-scale malignant narcissism of his...