Hugh Howey: “I wanted to know how many forum members were making $100 to $500 a month. My suspicion was that it was more than any of us realized. Every response I received started with a variation of: ‘I’m actually making a lot more than that’.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Our Lady Of The Fragile Humanity: Colm Tóibín On Dramatizing The Virgin Mary
“I realized that I was playing with fire. Some neighbors, and indeed some friends, despite their views on the Catholic church itself, still had a deep devotion to Mary as the grieving mother of God … Even in my pages Mary indeed remained an icon. I wished to give her a voice, let her speak, but I had no interest in reducing her or bringing her down to size.”
Roy Lichtenstein And The Power Of The Brushstroke
James Polchin argues that “Lichtenstein’s obsession with the minute details of painting proves there’s more craft to Pop Art than you might think.”
How On Earth Does One Choreograph A Score Like The Rite Of Spring?
“Nijinsky set it in tunics, Pina Bausch as a brutal battle of the sexes – so just how do you dance to Stravinsky’s most violent score? Judith Mackrell talks to Akram Khan, Javier de Frutos and other leading choreographers about following the greats.”
What Atheists Can Learn From Believers
The “(Old) New Atheists” – Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens – would say “Nothing.” A different group – call them “the New New Atheists” – beg to differ. Alain de Botton, Karen Armstrong, Francis Spufford, Jim Al-Khalili and Richard Holloway weigh in.
At Berlin’s Jewish Museum, ‘Ask Me Anything” With A Jew In A Display Case
“For two hours every day except Saturdays, a Jewish person sits in the box and answers questions.” The show, titled “The Whole Truth”, is “intended to demystify Jewish life for a curious but largely uninformed German public.”
What It’s Like To Be The Jew In The Display Case
Reporter Jamie Kirchick: “It’s not often that someone compares you to the Hottentot Venus, Tilda Swinton, and Adolf Eichmann, all in the same hour. But yesterday, depending on your point of view, I was all three.”
When Histories Collide
Indian-Pakistani author Aatish Taseer: “[History] is, in fact, like a currency, which is good only as far as people recognize its worth. … Not only were there stories other than our own, but there were stories more powerful than our own … One story could swallow another, it could supersede it; and this experience, no matter how it occurred, was fraught with anxiety.”
Marcel Duchamp Speaks
“Two years before Marcel Duchamp’s death in 1968, the Belgian director, Jean Antoine, filmed an interview with the artist in his Neuilly studio in the summer of 1966. … Here is [a transcript] the interview with the artist from our March 1993 issue, until then unpublished.”
Ten Terms To Describe The Anatomy Of A Book
Mental_Floss fills us in.