Too much modern fiction is dreary, slow-moving and downright boring, argues Harry Mount. People have been declaring the death of the novel ever since the first novelist, Petronius, held the first launch party 2,000 years ago, in Rome. The latest doom-monger is Lee Siegel, a witty columnist on the New York Observer – one of … Read more
Languagehat on “America”: I presume we all know about the first appearance of the word America on the Waldseemüller map of 1507; what I, at any rate, didn’t know was that the text of the map and accompanying book, and hence the coining of the word, is thought to be the work of Waldseemüller’s friend … Read more
FAT LAB: SPEED SHOW Vol. 2: Who the fuck do you think you are talking to? Gruppenaustellung, nur eine Nacht! Mit: Margarete Jahrmann & Renate Christian, JODI, Greg Leuch, JK Keller, Michael Marcovici, Will Moffat & Peter Burns, monochrom, Evan Roth, Sakrowski, Gordan Savicic, Michael Schieben, Georg Schütz, Chris Sugrue, Philipp Teister & Kim Asendorf, … Read more
FAT LAB’s SPEED SHOW Vol. 2: Who the fuck do you think you are talking to? One night group show. Participating artists: Margarete Jahrmann & Renate Christian, JODI, Greg Leuch, JK Keller, Michael Marcovici, Will Moffat & Peter Burns, monochrom, Evan Roth, Sakrowski, Gordan Savicic, Michael Schieben, Georg Schütz, Chris Sugrue, Philipp Teister & Kim … Read more