Hand-drawn posters, tables of pamphlets and one completely naked old man walking from booth to booth: This is the form anarchism took at the 2013 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, held on March 16 and 17. Fitting the worn-down warehouse in which it was held, the event appeared fragmented, a Read More…
Vladimir Nabokov, a lepidopterist, composer of chess strategies, lecturer at Wellesley, professor at Cornell and Russian-American novelist, was born 114 years ago today. So imagine my disappointment when, upon receiving my copy of Nabokov’s “Lolita” in the mail, I found this: Read More…
Sex, drugs and a guitar or two abound in “The Fun Parts,” Sam Lipsyte’s most recent collection of character-focused vignettes. Unfortunately for Lipsyte, what results is a hit-and-miss read with a few real gems and far too many forced laughs. Read More…
Science fiction has generally been the domain of male authors, but Ursula K. Le Guin has established herself as one of the greatest science fiction writers, raising the genre into literature. She is mentioned in the same breath as Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. Born and raised Read More…
A torrent of words and information — PowerPoint slides, textbook pages, text messages, Tumblr posts — pervades every moment of a college student’s day. The act of reading consumes class and homework time, and perusing blog posts and Facebook messages fills leisure time. Understandably, this endless stream of letters has left Read More…
