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A New Way to Read Music
… like GarageBand and other music software. What’s more, it points up for sharps and down for flats, which a demanding … might do with a pencil. Aside from that, it’s deceptively complicated and requires learning different symbols. How … , including Braille and an integer-based system—has also proven to be good for your brain, and we don’t need to …
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Truths, Slightly Arranged: John Updike’s Uninhibited Fiction
… or an invitation—​it’s not clear—​he does something uncommon for an Updike character: He beats a hasty retreat. … of writers—​like John Cheever and J. D. Salinger—​who were also associated with the magazine. If Begley’s biography and … his stud days, as in the story “Cunts.” Updike’s father died in 1972, and his mother in 1989, and in their loss …
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My Interview with the Avenger
… by actions of park vigilante. No follow-up, no one comes forward—just one of those uniquely weird New York … months ago I wrote an essay for this magazine (“The Avenger Dies for Our Sins,” September 2007) about why I believed the … City; Polarman of the Canadian Arctic. There are more. A website called the World Superhero Registry exists to keep …
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The Art of the Negative Review
… similar sentiments: while not a lone wolf at Salon.com, she does self-assign and if a book doesn’t grab her … At the panel, Mobilio argued that you don’t get points for showing up, nor should an avant-garde poet or a … whose methodical deconstruction of Ian McEwan’s Solar embodies West’s call for critics to “rebuke these hastinesses of …
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Faces Fleshed in Green
… camp in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, Binh Danh studied closely the mug shots of former prisoners. Danh, a … suspected of being “national enemies”—foreigners, professionals, artists, teachers, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist monks, … Danh’s art and Walt Whitman’s central trope—the leaves of common grass seen as hieroglyphic,” and he became …
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Take Down With Bad Intent: Books on Football
… if, as a young urban American male, I had any choice in becoming attached to the singularly northamericano sport of … Vocational High School team could probably beat them. Also, it was not a sport that a budding dissident like … overdose. The NFL’s rival football circuit was gaining an audience, culminating in a TV contract in 1965, and most …
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