Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her new book and the Biafran War, being African in America, and the distorted picture of Africa created by the media.
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23 October 2006
Milosevic may be dead, but he can still vote "No" on Kosovo's independence ShotSpotters save D.C. residents the hassle of calling 911 every time there's gunfire. How many world-famous locations can we play Game Boy? Questionably clever German hipster inventions. New birth-
Book Digest: October 23, 2006
Home Ground; The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes; The Best American Poetry 2006; The Best American Comics 2006; The Sun Also Rises; Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip; Echo Park; Point to Point Navigation
Video Digest: October 20, 2006
Nature vs. nasty: Great white sharks, early in the morning; Giselle’s hump and how young girls can emulate it; Tab, the soda that improves your mind; Salems, the cigarettes that soften your look; The history of technology taking over our lives, and a sign that cats will soon rule the planet.
At-Home Halloween Costumes
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a young woman work through a desperate situation: What to wear this year on Halloween?
20 October 2006
An adorably illustrated guide to sussing out liars. American-style supermarkets are changing the way India shops, farms, and even invests--but the corner stores are suffering. PDF of Johnny Cash's Christian comics from the '70s, compliments of WFMU. Weekend project: Make fake political signs! Put them
Amuse Bouche
To butter or not to butter: That is the question, and gluttons with high cholesterol should know the correct answer. But when friends organize a gastronomic tour of Paris, who am I to say no?
19 October 2006
Neglect could destroy 2,500-year-old Bistoun world heritage site, whose inscriptions "mark the birth of the Persian alphabet." Locations where people live on lead feature prominently in the planet's 10 most polluted places. It is possible to view Lovecraft's work as an
Everything But the Music
When Peter Saville created the artwork for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasureshe’d never even heard the album now wrapped in what is arguably the work for which he is best known. He also claims he’d only heard a couple of their songs prior to that—and didn’t
18 October 2006
Bush signs bill that will limit terror defendants' courtroom rights. If Democrats win control of one or both houses, Bush will have to go bipartisan or face lame-duckism. In 2000: "He speaks of being a bipartisan guy, but I think certainly the majority of Democrats in the