Charles Darwin

Free Will Astrology: April 3-9, 2013

Free Will Astrology

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Robert Sietsema at Shanghai Asian Cuisine; Lauren Shockey at Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria

Super soup dumplings​ This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema sucks up soup dumplings at Shanghai Asian Cuisine -- which might serve the city's best: "With a skin so thin, it's a challenge getting them from steamer to mouth intact. The accompanying tongs (utensils, not gang members) are useles ... More >>

The Synopsis Of The Year?

​"Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. "Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living after an accident claimed the life of his parents.

The Beagle Celebrates the Dog Days of Eating

On the origins of a new cocktail restaurant in the East Village

Religion Bad, Atheism Good, Says Quasi-Thriller The Ledge

After Miramax

Measuring the prospects of a new crop of independent distributors

Lessons in Irony: Darwin Family Not Quite Hip to That Whole Darwinism Thing

​This is ironic: Studies are now suggesting that Charles Darwin's family suffered from a rash of birth and growth defects. Because of inbreeding. Like, serious inbreeding. Like, he was schtupping his first cousin. Via Yahoo/LiveScience:

Creation Commits the Sin of Thoughtfulness, and Is Quite Moving in the Process

Real-Life Couples Onscreen: Does The Chemistry Translate?

​Paul Bettany and Jennnifer Connelly costar in an imminent movie called Creation about the history-making Charles Darwin and the wife, which gets me to wondering about a whole other theory of creation: When a couple is hot and heavy and/or married offscreen, does that always translate into si ... More >>

Nightmares Before Halloween 4: Allegedly Religious, Lesbian-Porn Dracula Sequel

​If jack-o-fetuses don't instruct your local children in the true Christian meaning of Halloween, you may wish to try on them Dracula: The Undead, a sequel to the famous vampire potboiler co-authored by Dacre Stoker, a descendent of original author Bram. It sounds like what you'd expect -- mor ... More >>

Lit Seen: John Updike and John Leonard, Writers at Rest

New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

Free Will Astrology: January 28 through February 3

Adam Gopnik Casts His Gaze on Abe Lincoln and Charles Darwin

A New Yorker writer on the origin of modern species

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Funniest of '08?

Perhaps, if you don't mind monkeying around

For Some Black Parents, the New Home Room is Home

Public schools are failing black boys, say a growing number of parents who are homeschooling

Stuffed Happens

A post-strike round-up: four Broadway openings, plus a little Off-Broadway Darwinism

Watson's Double-Helix Double-Bind Double-Reverse

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America's Next Top Supernovel

Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

Robert Rosenblum, 1927–2006

Imp of the art-historical perverse

The Brice Is Right

Few living artists have such breathtaking ways of making things

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Books

The Cleansing of the Elephants

Trumpeting, flapping, crying: a cultural history, from Ding Yunpeng to Gus Van Sant

Secrets and Lies

The Cleric and the Clerk Who Turned a Blind Eye

Intelligence Data

The Colour of Money

••• How William Perkin Dyed for Knowledge

Never Again

The History of American Eugenics Is Explored Online