In lieu of a weekender, today we give you something of a year-ender, 2016’s five golden (or not so golden)…themes. By all means, tell us in the comments what themes you spied in the headlines throughout the past year. 1. Donald Trump. It goes without saying, but nothing frenzied the network television companies and newspaper writers […]
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Meet your new overlords, people.
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Violence in Gotham, Pittsburgh, and Aurora: Breaking the 4th Wall
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Catch a Cannonball (to Take Me on Down the Line): In Memory of Levon Helm
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What It Means When Misery Is Meaningless
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Jonathan Franzen on Influence, Connection, and Kafka (not to mention Intimacy, Control and David Foster Wallace)