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Sacred Wood
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 339 pages, $27 In a recent interview promoting his latest essay collection, The Fun Stuff, critic...
Debating Desire
Emily Witt’s report on her experience of the San Francisco BDSM scene in the latest issue of n+1 provokes not only for its graphic descriptions, but also for the...
Soulful Houellebecq
The Map and the Territory by michel houellebecq, translated by gavin bowd knopf, 269 pages, $26.95 Man is a peculiar animal, for whom the world is not enough. The...
Why Kim Jong-Il Should Fear AntonÃn Dvořák
Now that the New York Philharmonic has accepted the North Korean government’s invitation to perform in Pyongyang , the question most worth asking is: Can music stop a man...
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a threat to all totalitarian regimes. The romance should not take away from...