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...their ages. Roth is 75 this year, Updike is 76, and Morrison is 77. (Roth and Updike are separated by exactly a year and a day.) Together these three are the ranking triumvirate of a literary generation that is way too all over the place to have a collective name--they ain't modernists, they ain't postmodernists--but that dominated American fiction for the second half of the 20th century. This year all three have arrived at an extraordinary moment of reflection...
That might be a little scary from the outside, considering how much power resides in molding the way people think about an issue. But it's good news for a company in California trying to make a name for itself...
...about what has to happen. Some pictures which might seem counterintuitive have been very helpful toward the upcoming election. I look at that New Yorker Obama cover as having had a big part in undoing the calumnies and bullshit that has been surrounding poor Barack’s middle name. As we move toward Great Depression Two, the roles will be up to the artist. Some people will just take on the job of being distracter and entertainer, and others will try to keep their eye on the ball and do incisive images. THC: Which will...
...bricks to facilitate cooling. Baker’s team, the Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development associates and follows Mahatma Gandhi’s edict that all materials be found within a five-mile radius: wood, bamboo, stone, cactus milk, pig urine, and recycled bottles, to name a few. The result is cheap, safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly housing that appears to simply grow out of the ground...
...campaigns often resort to less-than-honorable tactics to energize supports or sow doubt among an opponent’s potential voters. The McCain-Palin ticket has epitomized this fourth-quarter retreat into murky tactics, for example, with its use of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, as political ammunition. Appealing to the worst of voters’ prejudices, such tactics are particularly fiendish for their ability to degrade even those who speak out against them. A friend of mine, stalwart of the Republican information network that he is, regularly forwards to me chain letters that proclaim themselves...