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THE Q&A: CARLENE BAUER, WRITER, FORMER EVANGELICAL

There is such ease in the language of "Not That Kind of Girl", Carlene Bauer's memoir, that readers may be lulled into underestimating the alchemy that is taking place. Bauer has managed to transform the raw, melancholic, alienating challenges of ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Walker Percy,  Pixies,  Sylvia Plath,  Virginia Woolf,  Graham Greene

SLIDESHOW: LIFE BEHIND THE WALL

Hoepker narrates this powerful slide-show of his photographs of East Berlin, which chronicle 40 years behind the wall. This is a place of greasy cakes, bugged flats, sinister men in leather jackets and something called a "perhaps bag", an object of ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  18 Nov 2009

THE WIZARDS BEHIND THE WIKIPEDIA CURTAIN

Reviewing Andrew Lih's "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia" (which comes across as an unnecessary read), Morozov highlights the limits of this dotcom miracle. Sure, it's amazing that a bunch of ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Claude Chabrol,  The Economist

A SCHOOL FOR POLYMATHS

Can polymathy be taught? In the autumn issue of Intelligent Life Edward Carr laments that we seem to be experiencing a polymathy end of days--alas, our accumulated knowledge in any given field makes it far too difficult to become an expert in more than ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  19 Oct 2009

VAN GOGH ON THE PAGE

Few painters do themselves a favour with their writing: it tends to be all puffed-up statements and angsty diaries. The exception is Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), who has become a kind of Platonic ideal of the artist, impoverished, misunderstood and ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Vincent van Gogh

LYDIA DAVIS: GAINED IN TRANSLATION

Lydia Davis is a writer’s writer with some distinguished fans. With the publication of her “Collected Stories”, she talks to Emily Bobrow about language, precision and what she picked up from translating Proust ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Lydia Davis,  Samuel Johnson,  Rick Moody,  Francine Prose,  Dave Eggers

FOXES, HEDGEHOGS AND AIRWAVES

Isaiah Berlin once divided thinkers into two types. Foxes, he wrote, know many things; whereas hedgehogs know one big thing. The foxes used to roam free across the hills. Today the hedgehogs rule. Though we've cobbled together a list of living ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Isaiah Berlin

WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?

How's that typhoon season coming along? In August, Typhoon Etsau killed 13 people in Japan. Later that week, Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan's worst in 50 years, killed 367 people. Last weekend, Typhoon Ketsana brought the heaviest rain in 40 years to the ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  3 Oct 2009

"NICE TUMMY"

For a perfect balance of titillation and wistfulness, take a moment to watch this reunion of burlesque dancers (a video on NYT): "A Life in the (Satin) Gloves". The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Web page ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  2 Oct 2009

THE SCIENCE OF PREJUDICED OLD PEOPLE

There are a lot of clichés thrown around about the elderly, but one that seems to be true—or at least is backed up by research—is the belief they tend to be more prejudiced than younger people. This phenomenon—noted in The New York Times as early as 194 ...

From EMILY BOBROW, More Intelligent Life,  1 Oct 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company

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