September 15, 2015

A Dozen Things Charlie Munger Has Said About Reading

Read a collection of quotes from Charlie Munger himself on the importance of reading for the investor, collected by Tren Griffin, author of CHARLIE MUNGER: THE COMPLETE INVESTOR.

September 15, 2015

New Book Tuesday! Stiglitz, Greenwald, Negri, Dying, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

September 11, 2015

Memory in a World of Fast Capitalism — Gary Cross

“We all live in and are shaped by a world of fast capitalism, and therefore of consumed nostalgia, but we need not be consumed by it.” — Gary Cross

September 10, 2015

Gary Cross on the 5 Characteristics of Consumed Nostalgia

Gary Cross, author of “Consumed Nostalgia,” on what makes the phenomenon so distinct and so contradictory.

September 9, 2015

Guys Toys and “Girls” Dolls — Gary Cross on Consumed Nostalgia

Gary Cross on the history of the action figure and the nostalgia we attach to them.

September 8, 2015

New Book Tuesday: The Ethnic Avant-Garde, Architecture from GSAPP Books, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available.

September 4, 2015

Emanuel Levy on the Politics of Gay Films

Emanuel Levy discusses the political nature of the work of Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters.

September 3, 2015

Robert Boyers on the idea of the "Advanced Idea"

The following post is by Robert Boyers, author of The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals: The Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset wrote extensively about what he called “the height of the times.” Unhappy about the backwardness of his...

September 3, 2015

Emanuel Levy on John Waters, Camp, and Pink Flamingos

Emanuel Levy, author of “Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters,” on John Waters’s political use of camp.

September 2, 2015

Emanuel Levy on Todd Haynes's "Carol"

Emanuel Levy, author of “Gay Directors, Gay Films?,” discusses Todd Haynes’s highly anticipated new film “Carol”.

September 1, 2015

An Interview with Emanuel Levy, author of "Gay Directors, Gay Films?"

The following is an interview with Emanuel Levy, author of Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters Question: What was your motivation for writing this book? Emanuel Levy: The notion that a...

September 1, 2015

New Book Tuesday: The Shape of Spectatorship and More New Books!

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