What Ina Corinne Brown Saw — and What She Couldn’t
Few books reveal the architecture of their moment as honestly as Ina Corinne Brown’s Understanding…
The Age of Access by Jeremy Rifkin — A Review
Jeremy Rifkin has a habit of being right too early. The Age of Access, published…
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of the Typographic Man — Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan published The Gutenberg Galaxy in 1962, and the world mostly wasn’t ready for…
Luso Restaurant — 133 West Main Street, Smithtown, NY 11787
The first thing that strikes you about Smithtown’s West Main Street is that it refuses…
The Life of Wagner by Ernest Newman — Greatness and Monstrousness in the Same Skin
Few figures in the history of Western art invite such contradictory feelings as Richard Wagner….
The Astronaut Who Returned Older and Younger Simultaneously: Scott Kelly and the Body’s Underground Reckoning With Space
The NASA Twin Study found that 340 days in space rewrote Scott Kelly’s genome, elongated his telomeres, altered his gut microbiome, and shifted his cognition. His twin brother Mark aged normally. What is the self when space rewrites the cells?
