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• Google Puts Over 57,000 Works of Art on the Web, 31 Dec 2013 in Art&Google&Museums
• Albert Einstein Imposes on His First Wife a Cruel List of Marital Demands, 30 Dec 2013 in Letters&Physics&Science
• William Blake’s Hallucinatory Illustrations of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, 27 Dec 2013 in Art&Literature&Poetry
• Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80”, 26 Dec 2013 in Film&Letters
• Charles Mingus’ “Top Secret” Eggnog Recipe Contains “Enough Alcohol to Put Down an Elephant”, 24 Dec 2013 in Food & Drink
• Try George Orwell’s Recipe for Christmas Pudding, from His Essay “British Cookery” (1945), 24 Dec 2013 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Charles Dickens’ Hand-Edited Copy of His Classic Holiday Tale, A Christmas Carol, 23 Dec 2013 in Literature
• Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969), 22 Dec 2013 in Science
• Hear Michel Foucault Deliver His Lecture on “Truth and Subjectivity” at UC Berkeley, In English (1980), 20 Dec 2013 in Philosophy
• Listen to the 1963 Song the Beatles Gave to the Stones; Then Hear Them Sing Backup on a 1967 Stones Tune, “We Love You”, 19 Dec 2013 in Music
• Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the Art of Gustave Doré, 18 Dec 2013 in Poetry
• 1976 Film Blank Generation Documents CBGB Scene with Patti Smith, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie & More, 17 Dec 2013 in Film&Music
• Yakov Smirnoff Remembers “The Soviet Department of Jokes” & Other Staples of Communist Comedy, 17 Dec 2013 in Comedy
• In 1900, Ladies’ Home Journal Publishes 28 Predictions for the Year 2000, 13 Dec 2013 in History&Science
• Stephen Fry Profiles Six Russian Writers in the New Documentary Russia’s Open Book, 12 Dec 2013 in Literature
• Errol Morris Meditates on the Meaning and History of Abraham Lincoln’s Last Photograph, 11 Dec 2013 in History&Photography
• Where Do Great Ideas Come From? Neil Gaiman Explains, 11 Dec 2013 in Writing
• Gustave Doré’s Exquisite Engravings of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, 10 Dec 2013 in Art&Books&Literature
• The Clash Mauls a Teddy Bear and Plays Two Songs on The Tom Snyder Show (1981), 09 Dec 2013 in Music&Television
• Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen, 09 Dec 2013 in Comics/Cartoons&History
• See John Steinbeck Deliver His Apocalyptic Nobel Prize Speech (1962), 07 Dec 2013 in Literature
• Bob Dylan Reads From T.S. Eliot’s Great Modernist Poem The Waste Land, 05 Dec 2013 in Music&Poetry
• The Library: A World History Presents a Stunning Visual Survey of The World’s Great Libraries, 03 Dec 2013 in Architecture&Art&Books&History
• Watch Jean Genet’s Only Film, the Censored A Song of Love (1950), 03 Dec 2013 in Film&Literature
• Watch the Rolling Stones Write “Sympathy for the Devil”: Scenes from Jean-Luc Godard’s ’68 Film One Plus One, 30 Nov 2013 in Film&Music
• T.S. Eliot, as Faber & Faber Editor, Rejects George Orwell’s “Trotskyite” Novel Animal Farm (1944), 28 Nov 2013 in Books&Literature&Politics
• A Guide to Happiness: Alain de Botton’s Documentary Shows How Nietzsche, Socrates & 4 Other Philosophers Can Change Your Life, 27 Nov 2013 in Philosophy
• “Soda/Pop/Coke,” A Creative Visual Remix of Harvard’s Famous 2003 Survey of American Dialects, 27 Nov 2013 in Education&English Language&Film&Harvard
• Slavoj Žižek Examines the Perverse Ideology of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, 26 Nov 2013 in Film&Music&Philosophy
• The Story of the Bass: New Video Gives Us 500 Years of Music History in 8 Minutes, 25 Nov 2013 in History&Music
• The Existentialism Files: How the FBI Targeted Camus, and Then Sartre After the JFK Assassination, 22 Nov 2013 in Philosophy&Politics
• Read Rejection Letters Sent to Three Famous Artists: Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut & Andy Warhol, 21 Nov 2013 in Art&Letters&Literature
• Two Viral Videos Push Against Stereotypical Messages Girls Get From the Media (Mildly NSFW), 21 Nov 2013 in Comedy&Creativity&Current Affairs&Television
• Thelonious Monk Bombs in Paris in 1954, Then Makes a Triumphant Return in 1969, 20 Nov 2013 in Music
• Bob Dylan’s Controversial 2004 Victoria’s Secret Ad: His First & Last Appearance in a Commercial, 19 Nov 2013 in Music&Television
• Slavoj Žižek & Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Exchange An Extraordinary Series of Letters, 19 Nov 2013 in Current Affairs&Music&Philosophy&Politics
• Hear Ezra Pound Read From His “Cantos,” Some of the Great Poetic Works of the 20th Century, 18 Nov 2013 in Poetry
• David Bowie Appears in the “Director’s Cut” of a New Louis Vuitton Ad, Nods to Labyrinth, 17 Nov 2013 in Art&Design&Film&Television
• Hear All of Finnegans Wake Read Aloud: A 35 Hour Reading, 15 Nov 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• Free eBooks: Read All of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, 14 Nov 2013 in e-books&Literature
• Designers of the Invisible Bike Helmet Describe Their Revolutionary Product in Short Documentary, 13 Nov 2013 in Design
• Watch Animated Sheet Music for Miles Davis’ “So What,” Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation” & Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”, 13 Nov 2013 in Jazz&Music
• The Kinks’ Ray Davies Reviews the Beatles’ 1966 Album Revolver; Calls It “A Load of Rubbish”, 12 Nov 2013 in Music
• George Orwell’s Five Greatest Essays (as Selected by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Columnist Michael Hiltzik), 12 Nov 2013 in English Language&Literature&Politics
• George Saunders’ Lectures on the Russian Greats Brought to Life in Student Sketches, 11 Nov 2013 in Art&Literature&Writing
• Jerry Garcia Talks About the Birth of the Grateful Dead & Playing Kesey’s Acid Tests in New Animated Video, 09 Nov 2013 in Music
• T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Gets Adapted As a Comic Book, 08 Nov 2013 in Comics/Cartoons&Poetry
• Patti Smith Plays Songs by The Ramones, Rolling Stones, Lou Reed & More on CBGB’s Closing Night (2006), 08 Nov 2013 in Music
• Hear Albert Camus Deliver His Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1957), 07 Nov 2013 in Literature&Philosophy
• See the Homes and Studies of Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche & Other Philosophers, 06 Nov 2013 in Life&Philosophy
• In His Latest Film, Slavoj Žižek Claims “The Only Way to Be an Atheist is Through Christianity”, 05 Nov 2013 in Philosophy&Religion
• 80s Pop Singer Jimmy Somerville Surprises German Street Musician as the Busker Sings Somerville’s Hit, 04 Nov 2013 in Life&Music
• James Brown Saves Boston After Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Calls for Peace Across America (1968), 04 Nov 2013 in History&Music
• Lou Reed Rewrites Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” See Readings by Reed and Willem Dafoe, 03 Nov 2013 in Music&Poetry
• Watch Rare Film of Richard Pryor Singing the Blues: No Joke, All Heart, 01 Nov 2013 in Comedy&Music
• 10 Figures of Speech Illustrated by Monty Python: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis & More, 31 Oct 2013 in Comedy&Literature&Philosophy&Poetry
• Mark Twain Writes a “Gushing,” “Self-Deprecating” Wedding Announcement to His Family (1869), 31 Oct 2013 in Letters
• Charlie Parker Plays with Jazz Greats Coleman Hawkins, Buddy Rich, Lester Young & Ella Fitzgerald (1950), 30 Oct 2013 in Music
• In One of his Final Interviews, Frank Zappa Pronounces Himself “Totally Unrepentant”, 29 Oct 2013 in Music
• Watch Slipping Storm Troopers in Previously Unseen Blooper Reel & Outtakes from Star Wars, 29 Oct 2013 in Comedy&Film
• “Neglected Books” You Should Read: Here’s Our List; Now We Want Yours, 28 Oct 2013 in Books&Literature
• Learn to Sing the Harmonies of Famous Beatles Songs with Master Harmonist Galeazzo Frudua, 25 Oct 2013 in Education&Music
• Famous Writers Name “Good Books That Almost Nobody Has Read” in The New Republic (1934), 24 Oct 2013 in Books&Literature
• The Online Emily Dickinson Archive Makes Thousands of the Poet’s Manuscripts Freely Available, 23 Oct 2013 in Archives&Literature&Poetry
• Pablo Picasso’s Tender Illustrations For Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (1934), 23 Oct 2013 in Art&Books&Literature
• William S. Burroughs “Sings” R.E.M. and The Doors, Backed by the Original Bands, 22 Oct 2013 in Literature&Music
• The Challenge of Archiving Sound + Vision in the 21st Century, 21 Oct 2013 in Music
• 4000 Years of History Displayed in a 5‑Foot-Long “Histomap” (Early Infographic) From 1931, 21 Oct 2013 in Design&History
• The Very First Reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses: “A Work of High Genius” (1922), 18 Oct 2013 in Literature
• Patti Smith Sings “You Light Up My Life” with Composer Joe Brooks on 1979 Show Kids Are People Too, 17 Oct 2013 in Music&Television
• How Philip K. Dick Disdained American Anti-Intellectualism and Found His Inspiration in Flaubert, Stendhal & Balzac, 17 Oct 2013 in Literature&Sci Fi&Writing
• The Best Writing Advice Pico Iyer Ever Received, 17 Oct 2013 in Writing
• Vice Meets Up with Superstar Communist Cultural Theorist Slavoj Žižek, 16 Oct 2013 in Film&Philosophy
• Time Out London Presents The 100 Best Horror Films: Start by Watching Four Horror Classics Free Online, 15 Oct 2013 in Film
• Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose, 14 Oct 2013 in Literature&Writing
• Joseph Stalin, a Lifelong Editor, Wielded a Big, Blue, Dangerous Pencil, 11 Oct 2013 in History
• Lorne Michaels Introduces Saturday Night Live and Its Brilliant First Cast for the Very First Time (1975), 10 Oct 2013 in Comedy&Television
• Famous Philosophers Imagined as Action Figures: Plunderous Plato, Dangerous Descartes & More, 10 Oct 2013 in Creativity&Education&Philosophy
• Albert Camus Writes a Friendly Letter to Jean-Paul Sartre Before Their Personal and Philosophical Rift, 09 Oct 2013 in Letters&Philosophy
• Stephen Fry Hosts “The Science of Opera,” a Discussion of How Music Moves Us Physically to Tears, 08 Oct 2013 in Music&Science
• Ernest Hemingway’s Delusional Adventures in Boxing: “My Writing is Nothing, My Boxing is Everything.”, 07 Oct 2013 in Letters&Life&Literature
• R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country Features 114 Illustrations of the Artist’s Favorite Musicians, 04 Oct 2013 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Music
• The Daily Habits of Highly Productive Philosophers: Nietzsche, Marx & Immanuel Kant, 03 Oct 2013 in Creativity&Life&Philosophy&Productivity
• The Curious Score for John Cage’s “Silent” Zen Composition 4′33″, 02 Oct 2013 in Music
• David Bowie’s Top 100 Books, 01 Oct 2013 in Books&Music
• “David Bowie Is” — The First Major Exhibit Dedicated to Bowie Spans 50 Years & Features 300 Great Objects, 01 Oct 2013 in Art&Music
• Alan Lomax’s Music Archive Houses Over 17,400 Folk Recordings From 1946 to the 1990s, 01 Oct 2013 in Archives&Education&History&Music
• Virginia Woolf on James Joyce’s Ulysses, “Never Did Any Book So Bore Me.” Shen Then Quit at Page 200, 30 Sep 2013 in Books&Literature
• North Carolina County Celebrates Banned Book Week By Banning Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man … Then Reversing It, 26 Sep 2013 in Literature
• Bo Diddley’s Essential Tips for Surviving Life & the Music Business, 26 Sep 2013 in Music
• Watch the Sex Pistols’ Very Last Concert (San Francisco, 1978), 25 Sep 2013 in Music
• The Science of Breaking Bad: Professor Donna Nelson Explains How the Show Gets it Right, 24 Sep 2013 in Science&Television
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Tells His 11-Year-Old Daughter What to Worry About (and Not Worry About) in Life, 1933, 24 Sep 2013 in Letters&Literature
• James Joyce’s “Dirty Letters” to His Wife (1909), 23 Sep 2013 in Letters&Life&Literature
• What Was Your First Live Concert? We’ll Show You Ours, Share Yours., 20 Sep 2013 in Music
• Watch Audio Ammunition: A Documentary Series on The Clash and Their Five Classic Albums, 19 Sep 2013 in Music
• Sci-Fi Writer Robert Heinlein Imagines the Year 2000 in 1949, and Gets it Mostly Wrong, 19 Sep 2013 in History&Sci Fi
• Train Your Brain This Fall with Free Online Courses, eBooks, Audio Books, Language Lessons & More, 18 Sep 2013 in Education
• Edward Said Speaks Candidly about Politics, His Illness, and His Legacy in His Final Interview (2003), 18 Sep 2013 in Life&Literature&Politics
• Allen Ginsberg Gets Heckled by Beat Poet Gregory Corso at a 1973 Poetry Reading, 17 Sep 2013 in Poetry
• What Shakespeare’s Handwriting Looked Like, 16 Sep 2013 in History&Literature
• John Cleese’s Philosophy of Creativity: Creating Oases for Childlike Play, 13 Sep 2013 in Creativity
• Captain Beefheart Issues His “Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing”, 12 Sep 2013 in Music
• Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation, 11 Sep 2013 in English Language&History&Language&Literature&Theatre
• Bob Dylan and George Harrison Play Tennis, 1969, 10 Sep 2013 in Music
• Miles Davis Plays Music from Kind of Blue Live in 1959, Introducing a Completely New Style of Jazz, 10 Sep 2013 in Music
• Jorge Luis Borges’ Favorite Short Stories (Read 7 Free Online), 09 Sep 2013 in Literature
• 18 (Free) Books Ernest Hemingway Wished He Could Read Again for the First Time, 06 Sep 2013 in Literature
• On the 10th Anniversary of His Death, Watch Warren Zevon’s First & Last Appearances on Letterman, 06 Sep 2013 in Music
• Hear the Isolated Vocal Tracks for The Beatles’ Climactic 16-Minute Medley on Abbey Road, 04 Sep 2013 in Music
• The Music of Queen Re-Imagined by “Extraordinary” Classical Pianist, Natalia Posnova, 03 Sep 2013 in Music
• Surviving Members of The Clash Recount the Making of “London Calling” & Discuss New Box Set, 02 Sep 2013 in Music
• Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, 02 Sep 2013 in Literature&Music
• Seamus Heaney Reads His Exquisite Translation of Beowulf and His Memorable 1995 Nobel Lecture, 30 Aug 2013 in Literature&Poetry
• The Art of William Faulkner: Drawings from 1916–1925, 29 Aug 2013 in Art&Literature
• Albert Einstein Called Racism “A Disease of White People” in His Little-Known Fight for Civil Rights, 28 Aug 2013 in History&Politics
• T.S. Eliot’s Radical Poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Read by Anthony Hopkins and Eliot Himself, 28 Aug 2013 in Literature&Poetry
• What Books Do Writers Teach?: Zadie Smith and Gary Shteyngart’s Syllabi from Columbia University, 27 Aug 2013 in Literature&Writing
• Virginia Woolf’s Handwritten Suicide Note: A Painful and Poignant Farewell (1941), 26 Aug 2013 in Letters&Literature
• Robert Crumb Illustrates Philip K. Dick’s Infamous, Hallucinatory Meeting with God (1974), 23 Aug 2013 in Comics/Cartoons&Literature&Religion&Sci Fi
• Ernest Hemingway Writes of His Fascist Friend Ezra Pound: “He Deserves Punishment and Disgrace” (1943), 22 Aug 2013 in Literature&Poetry
• The Real Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artist Reveals Herself in Vintage Documentary Clips, 21 Aug 2013 in Art
• The Beatles’ Final, “Painful” Photo Shoot: A Gallery of Bittersweet Images, 21 Aug 2013 in Music&Photography
• Hear Vladimir Nabokov Read From the Penultimate Chapter of Lolita, 20 Aug 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• “The Lost Paris Tapes” Preserves Jim Morrison’s Final Poetry Recordings from 1971, 19 Aug 2013 in Music&Poetry
• CBGB’s: The Roots of Punk Lets You Watch Vintage Footage from the Heyday of NYC’s Great Music Scene, 16 Aug 2013 in Film&Music
• Documentary Viva Joe Strummer: The Story of the Clash Surveys the Career of Rock’s Beloved Frontman, 15 Aug 2013 in Film&Music
• Michel Foucault — Beyond Good and Evil: 1993 Documentary Explores the Theorist’s Controversial Life and Philosophy, 14 Aug 2013 in Philosophy
• The Three Punctuation Rules of Cormac McCarthy (RIP), and How They All Go Back to James Joyce, 13 Aug 2013 in Literature&Writing
• Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Vincent Price & Christopher Lee, 12 Aug 2013 in Literature
• See Patti Smith Give Two Dramatic Readings of Allen Ginsberg’s “Footnote to Howl”, 09 Aug 2013 in Poetry
• Hear the Never-Before-Released Bob Dylan Song “Pretty Saro” (1970), 08 Aug 2013 in Music
• 1922 Photo: Claude Monet Stands on the Japanese Footbridge He Painted Through the Years, 07 Aug 2013 in Art
• The Historic Meeting Between Dickens and Dostoevsky Revealed as a Great Literary Hoax, 07 Aug 2013 in Literature
• The 10-Minute, Never-Released, Experimental Demo of The Beatles’ “Revolution” (1968), 06 Aug 2013 in Music
• Photos of Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, J.D. Salinger, and Virginia Woolf As Youngsters, 05 Aug 2013 in Literature
• George Saunders Extols the Virtues of Kindness in 2013 Speech to Syracuse University Grads, 02 Aug 2013 in Graduation Speech&Life&Literature
• The Origins Project Brings Together Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, Ira Flatow, and More on One Stage, 01 Aug 2013 in Media&Science
• 100 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online), 01 Aug 2013 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Bryan Cranston Reads Shelley’s Sonnet “Ozymandias” in Ominous Teaser for Breaking Bad’s Last Season, 31 Jul 2013 in Poetry&Television