Articles tagged "books"

This week's photos are named after a term* in Taiwan, which Tao's mom says she first heard on TV, for people who seem unable to stop looking at their phones while in public.

His newly-translated novel envisions a Japan wrecked by complete economic collapse, abandoned by the international community, and on the cusp of being invaded by North Korea

Ah, Manhattan's Upper West Side: where the money flows aplenty, nepotism is a birthright, and the consequence for every action—economic collapse, poverty, fanatical terrorism, etc.—always falls to someone else, outside their zone.

Coconut Books is the print arm of the longest-running online poetry publisher I can think of. In the past several months they’ve released a slew of wicked new books. Here are my thoughts on three of them, along with an excerpt from each.

Talking to the "media inventor" about content, containers, and things that are not on the Internet.

Has the storied genre where Nazis triumph and the South beats the Yanks been consumed by the scourge of Steampunk?

Since roughly the 1960s, written American English has slowly diverged from the English of our British cousins. Relative to the British, American writing is more emotional now. OMG ALL CAPS!

In a stunning upset of red-hot author Junot Diaz, Claire Vaye Watkins took home The Story Prize, the Stanley Cup of short-fiction prizes.

Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss.

When Joyce’s Ulysses, neither a short book nor a breezy read, was released in China in 1994, it sold more than 85,000 copies.

First of all, you can't simply _become_ a cyberpunk. And not now. Certainly not now, not that cyberpunk is "everywhere":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/5/what-happened-to-cyberpunk--2. But close your eyes, put on your VR goggles, and return to

Is the library of utopia inching closer to opening its doors? Maybe, maybe not. Nicholas Carr has an exhaustive look at Harvard’s Digital Public Library of America initiative, and it raises all sorts of gut-churning questions about copyright law, the…

In the special Bicentennial Issue of Life, the nation’s interstate system was described as, “The most grandiose and indelible signature that Americans have ever scratched across the face of their land.” This statement remains truer than the magazine’…

On assignment for Motherboard, Vice co-founder Shane Smith traveled to London to meet with Spike Jonze during the production of _Where the Wild Things Are_. It took 300 artists and specialists to develop an innovative and heavily work-intensive way o…

William Gibson's foray into television included an _X-Files_ episode that aired in 1998, called "Kill Switch," and it's one of my favorites. In it, Mulder and Scully must pursue a killer computer that lives in an RV and drives around killing people t…

*_By Abe Riesman_* As the Iraq War winds down and already begins to fade and fizzle from popular memory, spare a little pity for the educators who will have to teach future generations about it. It’ll be hard enough to sort out its causes and its…

He was on the verge of dying, but his avatar looks kind of like a mix of a young James Joyce and Malcolm Gladwell. Skip the introduction by "Infinite Mind" host John Hockenberry by fast forwarding to 3:38. 11:50 is where he expresses resentment for h…

Richard Nash, the publisher, answered the door of his apartment in Clinton Hill carrying a big cardboard box filled with paperback books. “You know,” he said, holding the door open for me with his foot, “I don’t think most tech start-ups also hav…

Books: Obsolete? Maybe. But they have so many other purposes... Kindling, flower press, doorstop, booster seat, and now: xylophone. h4. Connections: "'Game Boy Music' As Steve Reich Would Enjoy It":http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/11/game-boy-music-…

Facing the likelihood of state budget cuts that would eliminate $15 million for library and reading programs - and, apparently, a future in which people no longer read things on paper - the city of Newport Beach is considering turning its first libra…

Facebook is not the only book out there, and anyone considering the overthrow of a dictatorship would do well to consider older, more analog tools for revolution.