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A contest based on The Peep Diaries, by Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki starts off The Peep Diaries by noting that Webster's 2008 word of the year was "Overshare." Now the new Oxford American Dictionary has made "Unfriend" the word of 2009...

“What if I told you that a thought. . .any tiny idea that forms in your mind. . .actually has mass? What if I told you that a thought is an actual thing, a measurable entity, with measurable mass? A minuscule mass, of course, but mass nonetheless. What are the implications?. . . .

Howard Zinn talks about his new documentary, based on his book A People's History of the United States, called the People Speak. And David Strathairn reads a chilling excerpt from Zinn's Voices of a People's History.

Fearless, inventive, persistent, beautiful, or just plain badass—here are some of the living authors who shake us awake, challenge our ideas of who we are, embolden our actions, and, above all, inspire us to live life more fully and creatively. ...

Sesshu Foster is the unofficial poet laureate of East Los Angeles, but only because such a position refuses officialdom. The author of critically acclaimed novel Atomik Aztex, City Lights also released ...

One Sunday morning in 1956, the doorbell rang in a third-floor walkup in Greenwich Village. The occupants of the apartment were two bright, attractive women in their mid-20s, both named Helen. The H's ...

Granta Editor John Freeman Takes Tweeting To Task In The Tyranny Of Email
John Freeman, editor of Granta Magazine and the award winning former president of the National Book Critics Circle traces a short history of our need for correspondence and examines the astonishing... growth of email–and how it is changing our lives, not always for the better. The Tyranny of E...

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Everyone famous and liberal lines up to speak from ‘A People's History of the United States.’