Stanley Crouch, the jazz critic whose outsize opinions were rendered in scalding, pugilistic prose, has died. He was 74 ... more »
It’s been said that the correspondence of great artists and idealists is mostly about money. Van Gogh is no exception ... more »
The internet is not what you think it is. For one thing, its intellectual roots go back to 19th-century conjecture on snail copulation ... more »