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One of my long-time hobby-horses is that people are way weirder than they realize, and that our politics would look different if more people understood how massively unrepresentative they are of the rest of the population. So here’s a...
A Vienna museum displays nothing but forgeries and treats each one with the seriousness of a minor master. The reverence reveals something uncomfortable: the aura we feel before a painting was never in the canvas. It was always in us,...
Just, out of nowhere, a flash. Her face. The tree. The white saree. And then everything came flooding back at once. Achamma. That's what we called her. My dad's mother. By the time I really knew her, she was already old. My grandfather...
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Another small important detail I learned today about epoch numbers in package names. Or rather: I was forced to understand what I already saw for years but never thought about. RedHat's package manager yum (and by that extent also dnf...
My latest review for All About Jazz documents my thoughts on this phenomenal new album by Wolfgang Muthspiel’s “Chamber Trio,” featuring trumpeter Mario Rom and pianist Colin Vallon alongside the guitarist. Drummerless jazz of the...
This is the most overwritten book I've ever read. Unfortunately, Alan Moore knows exactly how much polysyllabic pressure it takes to transmogrify base coal into precious gems. With lines like "his shaved suede skull made him look like a...
It’s been too long since I read something from Ann Patchett. This one is her first published novel, and it felt just as great as the rest. As usual, it’s a slow plot that dives deeply into a few interesting, endearing characters. I can...
18 June 2026 Five hundred years ago elk, bison, wolves and mountain lions roamed the eastern U.S., including Pennsylvania, but now we never see them in Pittsburgh. The closest we get to a mountain lion are the four cougar statues...