Outer Space
Witness the moving gesture that crippled Ben Schachtman‘s ability to by cynical. It’s found its form: Inception in concert in Vienna. “[Ebert’s] father called Champaign-Urbana ‘the greatest university in the world,’ a Burnham-designed neoclassical oasis with a first-edition Audubon open on display in the library. It was a place that attracted minds from all over […]
A Weekend of Fucking Nazis: Eddie Izzard, Stoker, Community
I. Cosmology Recently, Benjamin Van Loon resurrected a thorny old idea – cosmology – to describe the stronger, darker force than animates Sam Lipsyte’s ephemeral and satirical jests. The thorniness of the issue we owe, in part, to the postmodern conceit that everything is art, everyone is an artist, and in part to an older […]
Anobium’s Grand Alchemical Amalgam of All Things Awesome in 2012
The Anobium staff is proud to present what 2012 meant to us in terms of music, film, and literature. BENJAMIN VAN LOON Top 5 Albums 1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012] – A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea. 2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012] – I waited something like 10 […]
Mi Hermano – Junot Díaz at the 92nd Street Y
My father is not a fan of fiction. The implications of this could be cruel and boring – the most onerous of Künstlerroman clichés – but there is no Oedipal struggle for recognition in my family. It is just that my father – who is well read in the Classics, as well as mid-century American […]
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