The Pool, a new online platform for women, launches in UK
A new online magazine aimed at women is being launched by BBC Radio 6Music presenter Lauren Laverne, and former editor of Cosmopolitan and Red magazines Sam Baker. The new website,… Read more »
Three guesses which book won’t be available at the Guantanamo Bay Library
Prison libraries aren’t just where you stage a furtive conversation between prisoner characters, because obviously that’s where guards won’t notice anything; they’re a key element in the rehabilitative mission. The… Read more »
Is your job bullshit? David Graeber explains the London tube slogans
Last week, London residents made their way into the tube for their Monday morning commute after the holiday vacation where they were confronted with tube advertisements designed by Strike! Magazine.… Read more »
The New York Review of Books and Vice team up. Wait, why are you laughing?
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 »
James Franco’s perpetual James Franco-ness manifests itself in the form of a new story
James Franco, who has starred in critically acclaimed films like This is the End, Spider-Man 2, and Your Highness has made another foray into (probably-maybe) fiction this year, with his… Read more »
Vice Media is not Twitter
I am delighted to call bullshit on this: Vice Media co-founder Shane Smith’s claim, to Bloomberg TV, that his company could soon “have a market value equaling” Twitter. The numbers… Read more »
Is there any virtue in Vice’s suicide spread?
The short answer is no. On Monday, as part of a fiction issue on women writers, Vice published a fashion spread depicting the suicides of well-known authors. Doppelganger models portray Sylvia… Read more »