Oliver Sacks’ Heart-wrenching Goodbye

from The New York Times Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table By OLIVER SACKS Aidan Koch I LOOK forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to...

Nikki Finke’s Hollywood Dementia

from VULTURE Nikki Finke Is Now Making Up Her Stories (Sort Of) By Jessica Pressler Photo: Jen Rosenstein For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy. “As a journalist, that was the worst thing you could say about something,” she says. “That’s fiction.” In the years...

Gertrude Stein Remembered

from Real Clear Politics The Inimitable Style of Gertrude Stein By Carl Cannon Image from France Culture Sixty-nine years ago today, as the first crop of baby boomers was being born, iconic American expatriate Gertrude Stein died in Paris. Her life partner, Alice B....