If you comb through the Google Internet Cache—the Roman ruins of the 21st Century— you might stumble across long-abandoned GeoCities pages, lost Usenet postings, and other defunct websites. Over a decade after they were first created, some of your co-workers’ … Continued

“From his remarkable early [blurbs] . . . through his beautifully nuanced [blurbs] of family life and the bittersweet humors of middle age and beyond, John Updike has created a body of work in the notoriously difficult form of the [blurb] to sit beside those of these distinguished American predecessors”…

It’s now a truism that “street style” photography is no longer a record of the spontaneous grace and/or preternatural weirdness of its subjects, but rather a sort of running advertorial for metropolitan belle-egoistes with disposable income and, apparently, disposable time. … Continued

In The Enigma, a documentary on the Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter (available in its entirety on Youtube), you will discover Richter’s great gift for storytelling: he is terse, tense, and wonderful, telling a story just as he plays the piano—with … Continued

These color photographs are some of the first of their kind, taken by the Lumière Brothers using an irregular screen plate filter made of dyed grains of potato starch. I was shocked by the difference between these and black and white … Continued

D : He wanted to know who sits on my throne, you know. // D : Who are your influences.