May 12, 2006
In the near future America will have gone completely Christian, Hollywood will be renamed Holywood and Jesus will hail from The Bronx. That is, if all goes according to Tony Hendra's new novel, The Messiah Of Morris Avenue. Hendra talks with Kurt Andersen about the sincere theology which inspired his irreverence.
As part of our regular series on forwarded emails, Kurt Andersen muses on a web video that features a teenage girl, a prom song and her grandma.
Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and—Eureka!-he was inspired to make a major breakthrough in biology. Lu Olkowski reports on the unlikely epiphany.
Think of just about any product in your house-your TV, radio, microwave, telephone—if Bell Laboratory didn't invent it, they probably perfected it. As part of our on-going series on science and creativity, Michelle Mercer looks back at the little New Jersey lab that changed the world.
Can a computer compose Baroque music as well as Bach? Some programmers and musicologists are trying to find out. Jeff Lunden explains why.
Comic book artist Dan Clowes and filmmaker Terry Zwigoff have brought their endearing misanthropy twice to the big screen-first in 2001 with Ghost World and now with the new film Art School Confidential. Zwigoff and Clowes curb their enthusiasm with Kurt Andersen.
Kurt Andersen wonders why everyone is "shocked, shocked!" that Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan allegedly plagiarized her debut novel. The real scandal was the fact that a college student was going to be launched as a pre-fabricated literary superstar.
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