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• Enter the Hannah Arendt Archives & Discover Rare Audio Lectures, Manuscripts, Marginalia, Letters, Postcards & More, 27 Feb 2014 in Archives&Philosophy
• Paul McCartney Offers a Short Tutorial on How to Play the Bass Guitar, 26 Feb 2014 in Education&Music
• Hear Italo Calvino Read Selections From Invisible Cities, Mr. Palomar & Other Enchanting Fictions, 25 Feb 2014 in Literature
• Edgar Allan Poe Offers Interior Design Advice and Blasts American Aristocrats in “The Philosophy of Furniture” (1840), 24 Feb 2014 in Literature
• The Doors Play Live in Denmark & LA in 1968: See Jim Morrison Near His Charismatic Peak, 21 Feb 2014 in Music
• Johnny Rotten Goes Before TV’s Judge Judy in 1997 … and Wins!, 20 Feb 2014 in Music&Television
• Roger Ebert Lists the 10 Essential Characteristics of Noir Films, 20 Feb 2014 in Film
• 25 Noir Films That Will Stand the Test of Time: A List by “Noirchaelogist” Eddie Muller, 19 Feb 2014 in Film
• Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago, 18 Feb 2014 in Design&Literature&Writing
• Animated Video: Dock Ellis Throws a No-Hitter Against the Padres While Tripping on LSD (1970), 17 Feb 2014 in Film&Sports
• New “Hemingway” App Promises to Make Your Writing “Strong and Clear”, 15 Feb 2014 in English Language&Literature&Writing
• Paul McCartney’s Conceptual Drawings For the Abbey Road Cover and Magical Mystery Tour Film, 14 Feb 2014 in Art&Music
• Watch Langston Hughes Read Poetry from His First Collection, The Weary Blues (1958), 13 Feb 2014 in Literature
• Mark Twain Creates a List of His Favorite Books For Adults & Kids (1887), 12 Feb 2014 in Books&Letters&Literature
• David Foster Wallace’s Sharp Letter to His Editor: “Don’t F with the Mechanics of My Piece”, 11 Feb 2014 in Letters&Literature
• How a Book Thief Forged a Rare Edition of Galileo’s Scientific Work, and Almost Pulled it Off, 11 Feb 2014 in Books
• Watch All of The Beatles’ Historic Appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, 50 Years Ago, 10 Feb 2014 in History&Music&Television
• Jimi Hendrix’s Final Interview Animated (1970), 08 Feb 2014 in Music
• Two Animations of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: One Narrated by Orson Welles, Another Made with Clay, 07 Feb 2014 in Philosophy
• Impressions of Upper Mongolia : Salvador Dalí’s Last Film About a Search for a Giant Hallucinogenic Mushroom, 06 Feb 2014 in Art&Film&Literature
• The Greatest Jazz Films Ever Features Classic Performances by Miles, Dizzy, Bird, Billie & More, 05 Feb 2014 in Film&Music&Television
• Teddy Roosevelt’s 10 Rules For Reading: Seek Enjoyment, Spurn Fads, Read What You Like, 04 Feb 2014 in Books&History
• David Foster Wallace Creates Lists of His Favorite Words: “Maugre,” “Tarantism,” “Ruck,” “Primapara” & More, 31 Jan 2014 in English Language&Literature&Writing
• Student Asks Noam Chomsky for Dating Advice, 30 Jan 2014 in Life&Philosophy
• Watch Documentaries on the Making of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, 29 Jan 2014 in Music
• Pete Seeger Tells the Story Behind “We Shall Overcome”, 28 Jan 2014 in History&Music
• Harold Bloom Creates a Massive List of Works in The “Western Canon”: Read Many of the Books Free Online, 28 Jan 2014 in Books&Education&Literature
• Nietzsche Dispenses Dating Advice in a Short Screwball Film, My Friend Friedrich, 27 Jan 2014 in Comedy&Film&Philosophy
• John Lennon Plays Basketball with Miles Davis and Hangs Out with Allen Ginsberg & Friends, 25 Jan 2014 in Music
• The Big Lebowski Reimagined as a Classic 8‑Bit Video Game, 25 Jan 2014 in Film&Video Games&Web/Tech
• Sonic Youth Guitarist Thurston Moore Teaches a Poetry Workshop at Naropa University: See His Class Notes (2011), 22 Jan 2014 in Music&Poetry
• Kurt Cobain Lists His 50 Favorite Albums: Features LPs by David Bowie, Public Enemy & More, 21 Jan 2014 in Music
• Read Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story: The Influential 1957 Civil Rights Comic Book, 20 Jan 2014 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Education&History&Politics
• David Bowie’s Final Gig as Ziggy Stardust Documented in 1973 Concert Film, 20 Jan 2014 in Film&Music
• Neil Young Performs Classic Songs in 1971 Concert: “Old Man,” “Heart of Gold” & More, 18 Jan 2014 in Music
• Does God Exist?: William Lane Craig Debates Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins, 16 Jan 2014 in Philosophy&Religion
• Read 12 Masterful Essays by Joan Didion for Free Online, Spanning Her Career From 1965 to 2013, 14 Jan 2014 in Literature&Writing
• Patti Smith Documentary Dream of Life Beautifully Captures the Author’s Life and Long Career (2008), 13 Jan 2014 in Film&Music&Photography&Poetry
• Behold Pablo Picasso’s Illustrations of Balzac’s Short Story “The Hidden Masterpiece” (1931), 10 Jan 2014 in Art&Literature
• An Introduction to the Political Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Through His Free Writings & Audio Lectures, 09 Jan 2014 in Philosophy
• “Lol My Thesis” Showcases Painfully Hilarious Attempts to Sum up Years of Academic Work in One Sentence, 09 Jan 2014 in Comedy&Education
• Four Female Punk Bands That Changed Women’s Role in Rock, 08 Jan 2014 in Music
• Alain de Botton Shows How Art Can Answer Life’s Big Questions in Art as Therapy, 07 Jan 2014 in Art&Philosophy
• Designers Charles & Ray Eames Create a Promotional Film for the Groundbreaking Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera (1972), 06 Jan 2014 in Photography
• The Beatles Perform a Fun Spoof of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1964), 06 Jan 2014 in Music&Television
• Phil Spector’s Gentle Production Notes to George Harrison During the Recording of All Things Must Pass, 03 Jan 2014 in Music
• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Sing Country Versions of Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” & “When the Levee Breaks”, 02 Jan 2014 in Music
• The Story of Einstein’s Brain: A Japanese Professor Tracks Down the Organ in a Bizarre Documentary, 02 Jan 2014 in Film&Physics
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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