'The Annotated Poe' Is So Thoroughly Poe

In his exhaustively researched and lavishly illustrated "The Annotated Poe," Kevin J. Hayes makes good on his promise to “reveal the extraordinary complexity of Poe’s work” and “give a sense of the great range and diversity of Poe’s achievement”.
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'MASH' Star Wayne Rogers Dies at 82

Actor Wayne Rogers dead at 82 from complications from pneumonia.
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Kendrick Lamar - God Is Gangsta

God Is Gangsta - directed by: the little homies | Jack Begert | PANAMÆRA
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How Clementine Churchill Wielded Influence As Winston's Wife

Biographer Sonia Purnell says Clementine once remarked that she "would have loved to have been a statesman in her own right if only she had been born with trousers rather than petticoats."
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The Labor of Sound in a World of Debt

Now, even less than in decades and centuries past, it cannot be denied that sound and music are deeply embedded in economic and material networks of exponentially increasing complexity. Sound and music are not abstract concerns, floating free from a politically charged context of labor, power and society, and neither are the messages and joys they bring. It is dependent on, determined by, and reflective of the work that made it and the world into which it is born.
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'The Joy of Half a Cookie' and Other Mindful Mantras for Weight Loss

Jean Kristeller, a leading mindful eating researcher, has a new book that lays out a plan for how to curb overeating, trust your taste buds and get deep satisfaction from the quality, rather than quantity, of food.
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Locked away: Egypt’s forgotten Jewish literary heritage

Inside a library of a synagogue in downtown Cairo, hundreds of Judaic books dating from the medieval ages to the 20th century are shelved, unread and un-indexed. Despite a center dedicated to their preservation, government ministries have stalled, eschewing responsibility for what would be an expensive project to review and record the manuscripts digitally.
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An Illustrated Study of Black Cats, the “Little Aliens” of the Feline World

All Black Cats Are Not Alike, by writer-illustrator duo Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle, is a true feat in the age-old tradition of cat art.
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Here’s the List of New Netflix Originals Coming in 2016

Netflix is going to have an interesting 2016. We fully expect the lists of new content, specifically that owned by third parties, to continue to shrink each month. Content owners are getting stingier and stingier as they all hope to create their own streaming distribution channels. But Netflix thinks it has the answer: Its own original shows. As the list continues to grow, 2016 will be huge for them competing on homegrown content. With plans to nearly...
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Modern Trailer

This is a fan-made trailer for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. It really is infinitely better than the classic trailer.
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CFP Semifinals have Perfect Symmetry

The symmetry of the College Football Playoff looks as if it were drawn with an architect's hand. On both sides of the four-team bracket, a member of the sport's royalty will face a historical upstart for the right to play for the national championship.
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The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene

David Palumbo-Lui interviews prolific Bengali author Amitav Ghosh
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Memories of Murder (2003) - Ensemble Staging

How do you emphasize to the audience that something is important? Well, you could always cut to a close-up, but how about something subtler? Tony Zhou considers ensemble staging — a style of filmmaking that directs the audience exactly where to look, without ever seeming to do so at all.
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The Importance of Being Orwell

In his introduction to a volume of George Orwell’s diaries, the late Christopher Hitchens dissected one of the 20th century’s finest political minds. (July ’12)
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Anne Frank foundation fights plans to publish diary online on 1 January

Seventy years after Anne’s death, an academic and a French MP say the diary is public domain, despite objections from foundation set up by Otto Frank.
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Kendrick Lamar: 'I Can't Change The World Until I Change Myself First'

Even with To Pimp A Butterfly's success, Lamar is still conflicted about his place in music. "How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?"
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​The 11 Sci-Fi Films That Defined 2015

The best films about the future this year. By Brian Merchant.
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A Sonic Alarm for Our Natural World Going Silent

Bernie Krause has listened to nature since 1968, and in his decades recording environmental noise has become attuned to its changes.
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Climate economics: The high road

Michael Grubb is both swept away and frustrated by Nicholas Stern's argument for tackling climate change.
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What Is EFF Reading? Books, Movies, and TV Shows of 2015

What books, TV shows, and movies helped shaped the way EFF staff were thinking about cutting edge issues this year? Each December we like to look back...
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‘Black Dragon River’ Charts History Along The Amur

Dominic Ziegler’s thrillingly thorough geo-history follows the Amur River from its origin on the Mongolian steppes, along the Trans-Siberian Railway and through centuries of Eurasian history. By Jean Zimmerman.
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Superman Caught on Tape in Russia

Did this guy really stop a ton of sliding metal? Or was it just a coincidence? You be the judge.
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The Best Novel You’ve Never Heard Of

Pauline Kael, Randall Jarrell, and Jonathan Franzen were all fans of this under-the-radar masterpiece from 1940.
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‘The Force Awakens’ Has a Perfection Problem

Where does the next movie go from here? (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) By Megan McArdle.
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High Caliber Television

The planned launch of Gun TV, a home-shopping channel devoted exclusively to selling firearms to impulsive shut-ins, is an idea so purely American that one can only marvel that it’s taken this long to come to life. By Chris Lehmann. (Dec. 17)
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Listen to an Amazing Mixtape That Mashes Up Classic Emo and Modern Pop

The heyday of the mega-mashup might be a few years behind us, but every once in a while some great combination of tracks and genres comes along to remind us why we loved to listen to Girl Talk and his ilk in the first place. If You’re Listening It’s Never Too Late, the debut mixtape from the Los Angeles songwriting and DJing crew Captain Cuts (a.k.a. Ben Berger, Ryan McMahon, and Ryan Rabin), is a sublime combination of classic Emo and...
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The Best Moments In Television Of 2015 Featuring Mad Men, You're The Worst, Hannibal, Rick And Morty And More

While we often talk about television in terms of arcs, seasons and episodes, what resonates most with us are the moments, be they the WTFs we share on Twitter or the scenes that linger in our mind for weeks after they air. Here's a subjective list of the moments in television this year that ...
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Bob Marley and The Wailers - In Concert

A film by Stefan Paul of the concert in Dortmund, Germany 1979
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Salem: The Complete First Season Review

Largely eschewing digital FX when it doesn’t absolutely need them, SALEM evokes the provocative, immersive experience of Hammer Horror with providing the exploitative flamboyant edge of modern macabre. Add in a largely ingenious concept- a series following the Salem Witch Trials spurred on and manipulated by the actual witches- and SALEM offers something much more visceral and clever than those who mistake it for a CW-esque fringe frightener.
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“London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere

Christine L. Corton reminds us that England’s capital “has always been susceptible to mist and murk.” By Michael Dirda. (Nov. 16)
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Specials drummer John Bradbury dies

John "Brad" Bradbury, drummer with The Specials, has died at the age of 62. The ska group tweeted the news: "It is with deep regret that we say goodbye to our great friend, the world's greatest drummer, our beloved Brad. RIP." Bradbury joined The Specials in 1979, and continued with the reversioned band The Special AKA, who had a top 10 hit with Free Nelson Mandela. Bradbury took part in The Specials reunion tour in 2009. He also headed up a band called JB Allstars.
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Germany gives green light to bicycle highways

It's every cyclist's dream: no red lights, no trucks, just a clear, smooth lane to zoom down with the wind in your face. Welcome to Germany's first bicycle Autobahn. Fans hail the smooth new velo routes as the answer to urban traffic jams and air pollution, and a way to safely get nine-to-fivers outdoors. As a glimpse of a greener urban transport future, Germany has just opened the first five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of a bicycle highway that is set to span over 100 kilometres.
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26th December 1966 - Jimi Hendrix writes “Purple Haze”

Hendrix moved to England in 1966 and teamed up with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The group scored an almost immediate UK hit with “Hey Joe,” which was released in mid-December. It was 10 days later, however, on December 26, 1966, that Hendrix wrote “Purple Haze”—the song that would not only give him his breakthrough hit in the United States, but also go on to define an entire musical era.
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Russia likely to miss 2016 Rio Olympics over doping, European official says

Russia, an Olympics powerhouse, is likely to miss the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, the head of Europe's top sports body said Tuesday. Russia was banned indefinitely by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) recently after a commission by the World Anti-Doping Agency uncovered widespread doping among its athletes. The report also claimed the Russian government was complicit in a well-organized program to give its competitors...
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Guns N' Roses' founding members to reunite, headlining Coachella 2016

As of three years ago, the relationship between Guns N’ Roses’ founding lineup was so sour Axl Rose chose to sit out of the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now, though, Rose has let bygones be bygones, and, in 2016, he’ll give fans the reunion they have long desired. According to multiple sources with knowledge of the band’s plans, Guns N’ Roses will reunite to headline Coachella 2016. Meanwhile, Billboard reports that the band also...
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What Exactly Does An Editor Do? The Role Has Changed Over Time

Earlier this year it became clear that Harper Lee had extensively revised To Kill a Mockingbird on the advice of her editor. That made us wonder: How much do editors shape the books we read?
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28th December 1895 - First commercial movie screened

The world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.
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Rudyard Kipling: an unexpected revival for the ‘bard of empire’

‘Vulgar rabble-rouser’, ‘rootless cosmopolitan’, ‘mouthpiece of the empire’ … Kipling has had his share of detractors. But, 150 years after his birth, interest in India’s greatest English-language writer is growing. By Andrew Lycett.
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Canada's Shannon Szabados registers 1st shutout in men's pro hockey

Shannon Szabados made history Saturday night in leading the Columbus Cottonmouths to a 3-0 win over the Huntsville Havoc in Alabama, marking the first time a female goaltender has registered a shutout in a men's professional hockey match. The 29-year-old made 33 saves during the game, moving the team to 8-9-4 this season. The two-time Olympian is playing in her second full season with the Southern Professional Hockey League team, taking over starting...
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Nancy Mitford's Two Good Novels

Li Sian Goh celebrates Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate."
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THE X-FILES | Re-Opened

The truth is out there… and we’ve got the inside story on the thrilling return of The X-Files. Go behind the scenes with Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and all the key players as they reveal secrets from the set and take you on the epic journey of bringing this classic series back to Fox.
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The Irresistible Psychology of Fairy Tales

What can explain the recent explosion of interest in classic folk stories?
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Sources: Evander Kane is subject of sex offense investigation

Evander Kane, a Buffalo Sabres left winger, is the subject of a sex offense investigation by Buffalo police over an incident that allegedly occurred Sunday morning in a downtown hotel room near First Niagara Center, three police sources have told The Buffalo News. Kane has not been charged with any crime, and law enforcement officials would confirm only that there is an ongoing investigation by officers from the department’s Sex Offense Squad.
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First Look at Dr. Strange

Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange
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Henry VIII's evidence to support break with Rome turns up in Cornish library

A book which helped changed the course of English history, part of the evidence Henry VIII and his lawyers gathered in the 1530s to help win an annulment from Catherine of Aragon and ultimately to break with Rome, has turned up on the shelves of the magnificent library at Lanhydrock, a National Trust mansion in Cornwall.
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Motörhead’s Lemmy Dead at Age 70

Motörhead have confirmed Lemmy’s death in a Facebook post. “There is no easy way to say this…our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer,” the band wrote. “He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from The Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family.”
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First Book mixes market forces and philanthropy to help poor children

First Book is a nonprofit organization that provides free books to poor children nationwide. The group is also branching out to fill other needs of the growing ranks of low-income children, including winter coats.
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“Spotlight” and Its Revelations

How the film, and the journalists it depicts, laid bare the power of disclosure, and even conversation. By Sarah Larson.
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Looking Back at 10 Years of Art Made from Printed Books

Donna Seager’s book collection doesn’t look like most people’s. Instead of being lined up neatly on shelves, many of her books have been hacked to pieces, folded and warped like origami, transformed into chess sets, oversized flowers, men’s loafers, and abstract sculptures.
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Meadowlark Lemon, Iconic Star of the Harlem Globetrotters, Dies at 83

Meadowlark Lemon, the iconic prankster whose smooth showmanship was the hallmark of the traveling basketball troupe known as the Harlem Globetrotters, has died at the age of 83.
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