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We Need Heart-Touching, Soul-Penetrating Stories!
by Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
The wisdom of philosophy, psychology, and religion, all boiled down to one best-selling formula.
Aardvark Politick
by Douglas Wolk
Dave Sim’s Cerebus, while at times idiosyncratically misogynistic, realizes an incredible twenty-seven-year project of comic-book brilliance.
On George W.S. Trow’s The Harvard Black Rock Forest and His Formally Unique Cultural Criticism
by Greg Bottoms
George W. S. Trow’s pre-post-structuralist fight against basic cultural stupidity.
The Periscopic Penis of Protagonist P
by James Browning
J. P. Donleavy’s characters are obsessed with accents and incomes. He’s obsessed with their erections.
Tom Stoppard
interviewed by Adam Thirlwell
The playwright enjoys a cricket match, and explains why it’s odd for bicycle makers to stop making bicycles post-9/11.
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Mark Mothersbaugh
interviewed by Maura Kelly
The lead singer for Devo also wrote the music for Pee-wee’s Playhouse and the last few Wes Anderson films.
Sarah Silverman
interviewed by Tim Bennett
Email dispatches from the now Xanax-free comedienne on the inherent humor of Marlo Thomas shitting on a coffee table.
