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Sacred Wood

Santiago Ramos

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

Santiago Ramos

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

Santiago Ramos

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 Antonín Dvořák

Santiago Ramos

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

Santiago Ramos

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...