- Around 1993, Banksy’s graffiti began appearing on trains and walls around Bristol; by 2001, his blocky spray-painted signature had cropped up all over the United Kingdom, eliciting both civic hand-wringing and comparisons to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Vienna, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Paris followed…
- SLIDE SHOW: BANKSY’S ART
BOOKS
What Else
Is New?
- by Steven Shapin
- How uses, not innovations, drive human technology.
- BROWSE BRIEFLY NOTED
Dept. of Archeology
Fragmentary Knowledge
- by John Seabrook
- Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer?
- SLIDE SHOW
Annals of Communications
Critical Mass
- by Ken Auletta
- Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg.
- MORE BY AULETTA
- Since all industries crave foreign markets to expand into but fear foreign competitors encroaching on their home turf, they lobby their governments to tilt the rules in their favor. Usually, this involves manipulating tariffs and quotas. But, of late, a troubling twist in the game has become more common, as countries use free-trade agreements to rewrite the laws of their trading partners…
ANNALS OF SCIENCE
Crash Course
- by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Can a seventeen-mile-long collider unlock the universe?
- SLIDE SHOW: THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
AUDIO
The Perfect Wave
- with Burkhard Bilger
- The revolutionary tone of Parker guitars.
- MORE ONLINE ONLY
FICTION
Hanwell Senior
- by Zadie Smith
- First to raise a glass and last to put it down.
- SMITH: “HANWELL IN HELL” (2004)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS
DEPT. OF ARCHEOLOGY
PROFILES
ONLINE ONLY
COMMENT
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
THE FINANCIAL PAGE
SHOUTS & MURMURS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
FICTION
FICTION
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
- Mahmoud Darwish: “Remainder of a Life.”
POETRY
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
TELEVISION
ART
- Vince Aletti: The photographs of Vik Muniz.
DANCE
- Joan Acocella: Flamenco on film.