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Highs in the Mideighties
Recalling the heyday of Prince and Madonna on the thirtieth anniversary of Purple Rain. Twenty-four-hour music television, the brainchild of a TV-spawned pop star, the Monkees’ Michael Nesmith, began...
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“1986 Mets: A Year to Remember is quite possibly the most amazing video yearbook for any professional sports team … ever.” That’s a comment from someone named the Wright Stache, who’s done God’s work...
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An illustration from Bundesbuch von Magenau (Book of the Covenant of Magenau), 1790. One of the many things that dates my childhood firmly to the eighties and early nineties is the ubiquity of large...
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A Conversation About Our Secret Life in the Movies
A detail from the cover of Our Secret Life in the Movies. When the writers Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree lived together in San Francisco, they set out to watch every film in the Criterion Collection....
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Ways of Witnessing
Geoff Dyer and John Berger, 1984. Marxism Today, December 1984. I read Berger’s Ways of Seeing and then started to read more and more of him, and I found it all very stimulating and exciting. He was...
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The Fuzz that Was, and Other News
January 17, 1986: Officer Gary Capuano. Photo: William Karl Valentine, via Slate A certain Gen-X urtext is now twenty years old and all the more interesting for it: “I discovered that Reality Bites,...
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Books by Covers, Et Cetera
For a kid, it’s better than your name in lights: your name in appliqué. Back when the world was new and there weren’t three Sadies in every kindergarten class, I worshipped the Lillian Vernon catalog....
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It’s a Beautiful Day to Be Stuck on a Container Ship, and Other News
The Hanjin Geneva, doing exactly what it can’t do now. Today in ridiculous situations brought to you by global capital: the artist Rebecca Moss has been stranded at sea, stuck on a container ship owned...
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An Historic Minivan, and Other News
May we remember it always. In an age of rising income inequality, there’s no real justification for coziness. To sit fireside in a pair of Smartwool socks is to reek of privilege—not even the most...
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They’re from Here, and They’re Great
Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Michael Chabon recalls discovering the Pittsburgh band Carsickness. Carsickness. I saw...
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Highs in the Mideighties
Recalling the heyday of Prince and Madonna on the thirtieth anniversary of Purple Rain. Twenty-four-hour music television, the brainchild of a TV-spawned pop star, the Monkees’ Michael Nesmith, began...
View ArticleYou Belong to the City
“1986 Mets: A Year to Remember is quite possibly the most amazing video yearbook for any professional sports team … ever.” That’s a comment from someone named the Wright Stache, who’s done God’s work...
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An illustration from Bundesbuch von Magenau (Book of the Covenant of Magenau), 1790. One of the many things that dates my childhood firmly to the eighties and early nineties is the ubiquity of large...
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A Conversation About Our Secret Life in the Movies
A detail from the cover of Our Secret Life in the Movies. When the writers Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree lived together in San Francisco, they set out to watch every film in the Criterion Collection....
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Ways of Witnessing
Geoff Dyer and John Berger, 1984. Marxism Today, December 1984. I read Berger’s Ways of Seeing and then started to read more and more of him, and I found it all very stimulating and exciting. He was...
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The Fuzz that Was, and Other News
January 17, 1986: Officer Gary Capuano. Photo: William Karl Valentine, via Slate A certain Gen-X urtext is now twenty years old and all the more interesting for it: “I discovered that Reality Bites,...
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Books by Covers, Et Cetera
For a kid, it’s better than your name in lights: your name in appliqué. Back when the world was new and there weren’t three Sadies in every kindergarten class, I worshipped the Lillian Vernon catalog....
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It’s a Beautiful Day to Be Stuck on a Container Ship, and Other News
The Hanjin Geneva, doing exactly what it can’t do now. Today in ridiculous situations brought to you by global capital: the artist Rebecca Moss has been stranded at sea, stuck on a container ship owned...
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An Historic Minivan, and Other News
May we remember it always. In an age of rising income inequality, there’s no real justification for coziness. To sit fireside in a pair of Smartwool socks is to reek of privilege—not even the most...
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They’re from Here, and They’re Great
Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Michael Chabon recalls discovering the Pittsburgh band Carsickness. Carsickness. I saw...
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