The New Republic makes a list of 100 innovators and thinkers who led thinking in the 20th Century.
Tag: 11.14
Mikhail Baryshnikov Salutes Wendy Whelan
“The German sociologist Erich Fromm said that creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. That’s what Wendy has, in my opinion – courage. … It may sound like a silly pun, but when I say there’s a certain grace to these next steps, I mean it in the most sincere way. I salute her fortitude, and along with everyone else, I’m eager to see what she does next.”
The Generous, Grumpy, Disheveled, Cultured Man Who Ran The World’s Most Famous Indie Bookstore
Bruce Handy travels to Shakespeare & Co. in Paris to learn about the long, strange life of its longtime proprietor, George Whitman – and his daughter, Sylvia, who’s bringing the store into the 21st, or at least 20th, century.
Are We Merely The Product Of Neurons Firing And Cells Replicating? (Or Is There Something Bigger?)
“What people don’t like, apparently, is the idea, borne in on them every day as science marches through their genetics and into their brains, that a person is merely a slub in the fabric of the universe, no more than a complicated and clever bulge amid the threads of causation, rather than a free-wheeling, free-choosing, autonomous, responsible initiator of deeds.”
Why A Street Criminal Stole A Strad
“It isn’t every day that a street criminal – a high-school dropout with two felony convictions – is accused of stealing a centuries-old violin worth as much as $6 million. But nothing about the heist of the Lipinski Stradivarius, which galvanized the music world last winter, was normal, or even logical.”