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Kickstarter is a powerful website, and its awesome crowdfunding power has, on occasion, been deployed toward some pretty odd ends. But for every Missy Elliott-themed tracksuit and Ron Paul-themed video game… Read more »

Earlier this week, Capital New York reported on a new partnership between the New York Review of Books and Vice News. Capital is an excellent publication (full disclosure: I have… Read more »

Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, once wrote that “the most disturbing quality about [Bill] Clinton” was “his indifference to contradiction.” In the same essay, Wieseltier called… Read more »

Musical genius and national treasure “Weird Al” Yankovic just released an album, and like Beyonce before him, he’s releasing a trove of videos all at once. (Or close to it;… Read more »

Amazon isn’t saying much about its dispute with Hachette. Hachette isn’t saying much about its dispute with Amazon. Thankfully, Dick Cavett, Malcolm Gladwell, and Dave Hill are here to break… Read more »

The New York Times called it “indelible,” National Public Radio “so new and inventive, it feels like a milestone of both journalism and creative fiction,” Victor Sebestyen at the Spectator… Read more »

That’s it, it’s over—the world’s greatest nexus of unlikely elements has been created. It will be not equaled, it will not be surpassed, it may in fact constitute a new… Read more »

Last month we reported the sad news that Gary Shteyngart, one of the best book blurbers around, was retiring from blurbing. “Literature can and will go on without my mass… Read more »

As Mariusz Szczygieł, the award-winning Polish journalist, says in his cultural biography of Czechoslovakia Gottland (coming in May from Melville House), Karel Gott “is the Czech Presley and Pavrotti rolled into… Read more »

Last month, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency published a poem by Kendra Eash entitled “This is a generic brand video” which poked fun at the stock language and footage that is often used… Read more »