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As The New Yorker reaches its 85th anniversary, its art editor praises the advantages of still drawings over animation.
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The New Yorker art editor recalls some of the magazine’s more infamous covers and argues that cartoons should be discussed, not suppressed.
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New to graphic novels? RAW co-founder Francoise Mouly has some suggestions for you.
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RAW co-founder Francoise Mouly has seen comic books evolve from kids’ pastime to titillating adult medium to high-gloss art form. Should they now return to their roots?
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Could a medium once scorned as trash be a better teaching tool than the traditional picture book?
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A conversation with the art editor of The New Yorker.
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Novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is married to cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. What have they learned about love, from study and experience?
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The philosopher explains the “moral argument” for the existence of God and why it still holds some appeal for contemporary philosophers.
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What the man Bertrand Russell called “the most lovable of philosophers” still has to teach us.
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Why the author of “36 Arguments for the Existence of God” chose fiction as a path into the debate raging between atheists and believers.
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The novelist describes the “transcendent instinct” common to both fields, but believes religion has been “pulled along by reason” and not vice versa.
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Rebecca Goldstein grew up Orthodox Jewish and became a skeptical philosopher and novelist. How does that complex arc affect her writing?
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A conversation with the novelist and philosopher.
One of the biggest criticisms of contemporary art is that it has no connection to the community. These works seemingly exist in a vacuum with no ties to the people […]
NASA has unveiled a prototype for a new kind of vehicle which could revolutionize the way we travel. The “Puffin” takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane and sounds like a car.
Lawyers fighting the case for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman charged with attempting to murder US soldiers and FBI agents, have said the “laws of science do not apply in her case”.
Somalia’s al Shabeeb militant group has said it will join forces with al Qaeda in a drive to establish an Islamic state in the region and to support Muslims across East Africa.
Pope Benedict XVI has slammed British laws which protect the equal rights of homosexuals, saying that such policies go against religious freedom and violate “natural law”.
A cat which has “predicted the deaths” of more than 50 residents of the nursing home where he lives (by sitting on their laps in their final hours), is the subject of a new book.
Single women eat salad because they use their food to signal their attractiveness to men, according to a scientist who observed 470 students at McMaster University, Ontario.