Thinking is a Health Food

For over 1,500 years, the above-pictured Roman-era skeletal couple have been holding hands--or to be more precise, bones, they've bee...

Insects, bugs, crawlers, and the like are still, to my mind, some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet, a dizzyingly spinning g...

Take one quick look at global news, and you'll see pretty quickly that London isn't the only area in the world right now going thr...

"I am the manager, said the manager, since he was the manager." Beckett, Mercier et Camier This is, without a doubt, one of those ...

Thank goodness for some people with a little practicality remaining inside those cavernous, underutilized heads of theirs. Check this out ri...

So Osama bin Laden is dead (or might be dead), which the US is quite ready to claim without proffering the body, though they claim they had ...

" The ending of a novel isn't usually very important. In fact,people never seem to remember the endings of novels (most especially ...

Not that, you know, there's ever any convincing reason to believe the stupid and cruel isn't alive and well in America, but sometime...

I always prefer it when authors personalize their little "the following portrayals are based in fiction" disclaimers in the first ...

Two dope albums worth checking out that came out over the past week and this weekend with videos/songs dropped below: Abstract & ambient...

I'm not shy about saying I think a large proportion of what Malcolm Gladwell puts into his books is unfounded, specious, sophistic bulls...

Obvious statement: Carlos Fuentes is masterful and spellbinding. That out of the way, I'm lost and immersed in his humongous Terra Nostr...

The holidays speed by, for which I'm more grateful than nostalgic. It's good, I think, that they terminate almost as soon as (someti...

"Once again, I'm aware that it's clumsy to put it all this way, but the point is that all of this and more was flashing through...

Few contemporary musicians utilize their internet presence the way Bradford Cox does. Lynchpin and brainchild behind both Deerhunter and Atl...

& dense & packed & bent & spinning & full & enormous & nanoscopic & held together by dust & lovely. Sici...

In the spirit of John Cage, Germany's Volker Bertelmann, who records under the moniker Hauschka, paints haunting regional landscapes thr...

I think, perhaps, that I'm a weird reader, at least in this current generational crop, in that I feel immeasurably comfortable and at ho...

Practically all I have the time for these days are blog posts featuring quotes from books I'm reading. While the page count for the writ...

Not even with their music this time, either. In a recent interview with Pitchfork, brothers Win and Will Butler said a number of wise things...

While I won't be the first person to extol the untainted virtue of the United States as a democratic entity, I will be one of the first ...

"'Eat your flan,' ordered Clara, still looking at Andrés out of the corner of her eye. His eyes he'd closed. He seemed to b...

" Do you know where all the really sad stories I'm getting are coming from? They're coming, it turns out, from kids. Kids in co...