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• The Three Punctuation Rules of Cormac McCarthy (RIP), and How They All Go Back to James Joyce, 13 Aug 2013 in Literature&Writing
• 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
• J.R.R. Tolkien Reads From The Two Towers, the Second Book of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 30 Jul 2013 in Literature
• Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See, 29 Jul 2013 in Education&Film
• Slavoj Žižek Publishes a Very Clearly Written Essay-Length Response to Chomsky’s “Brutal” Criticisms, 27 Jul 2013 in Philosophy
• Mick Jagger Defends the Rights of the Individual After His Legendary 1967 Drug Bust, 26 Jul 2013 in Music
• The History of Philosophy, from 600 B.C.E. to 1935, Visualized in Two Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams, 25 Jul 2013 in Philosophy
• Junot Díaz Annotates a Selection of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for “Poetry Genius”, 25 Jul 2013 in Literature
• Walter Benjamin’s Philosophical Thought Presented by Two Experimental Films, 24 Jul 2013 in Film&Philosophy
• The Actual Schindler’s List Is For Sale on Ebay, Starting Bid $3,000,000, 24 Jul 2013 in History
• The Atheism Tapes Presents Lengthy Interviews with Arthur Miller, Daniel Dennett & Richard Dawkins About Religion and Unbelief, 23 Jul 2013 in Philosophy&Religion
• Star Wars Gets Dubbed into Navajo: a Fun Way to Preserve and Teach a Fading Language, 19 Jul 2013 in Film
• The Poetry of Leonard Cohen Illustrated by Two Short Films, 18 Jul 2013 in Animation&Film&Literature&Poetry
• Charles Mingus Explains in His Grammy-Winning Essay “What is a Jazz Composer?”, 18 Jul 2013 in Music
• Pussy Riot Releases First Video in a Year, Taking on Russian Oil Profits and Other High-Profile Targets, 17 Jul 2013 in Current Affairs&Music&Politics
• Hannah Arendt Discusses Philosophy, Politics & Eichmann in Rare 1964 TV Interview, 16 Jul 2013 in Film&History&Philosophy
• Watch a Whimsical Animation of Italo Calvino’s Short Story “The Distance of the Moon”, 15 Jul 2013 in Animation&Literature
• Rare Print of Censored 1972 Rolling Stones Concert Film Cocksucker Blues Goes on Sale for £25,000, 15 Jul 2013 in Film&Music
• Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated “Polysyllabic Truisms”, 13 Jul 2013 in Philosophy&Science
• Can Science Fiction Save the Liberal Arts? (Asks The New Republic), 12 Jul 2013 in Education&Literature
• Virginia Woolf and Friends Dress Up as “Abyssinian Princes” and Fool the British Royal Navy (1910), 11 Jul 2013 in History&Literature&Random
• Annotated Photographs of Beat Writers Featured in The Allen Ginsberg Festival, Starting Today, 11 Jul 2013 in Literature&Photography
• The Grateful Dead’s “Ultimate Bootleg” Now Online & Added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, 10 Jul 2013 in Music
• New Robert Rauschenberg Digital Collection Lets You Download Free High-Res Images of the Artist’s Work, 10 Jul 2013 in Art
• The Most “Intellectual Jokes”: Our Favorite Open Culture Reader Submissions, 08 Jul 2013 in Comedy
• What’s the Most Intellectual Joke You Know?: The Best from Reddit (and You?), 07 Jul 2013 in Comedy
• Cutting-Edge Technology Reconstructs the Battle of Gettysburg 150 Years Later, 04 Jul 2013 in History&Technology
• David Bowie Narrates Sergei Prokofiev’s Children’s Symphony Peter and the Wolf, 03 Jul 2013 in K-12&Music
• Deconstructing The Master Track of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, 02 Jul 2013 in Music
• Blondie Plays CBGB in the Mid-70s in Two Vintage Clips, 01 Jul 2013 in Music
• Stephen Fry Reads Oscar Wilde’s Children’s Story “The Happy Prince”, 01 Jul 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• In “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” Artist John Koenig Names Feelings that Leave Us Speechless, 30 Jun 2013 in Creativity&English Language&Life
• Two Drawings by Jorge Luis Borges Illustrate the Author’s Obsessions, 28 Jun 2013 in Literature
• Watch a Surprisingly Moving Performance of John Cage’s 1948 “Suite for Toy Piano”, 27 Jun 2013 in Music
• What Do Most Philosophers Believe? A Wide-Ranging Survey Project Gives Us Some Idea, 26 Jun 2013 in Philosophy
• Explore the Massive Stanley Kubrick Exhibit, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Until June 30, 25 Jun 2013 in Film
• The Musical Mind of Albert Einstein: Great Physicist, Amateur Violinist and Devotee of Mozart, 25 Jun 2013 in Music&Physics
• Two Childhood Drawings from Poet E.E. Cummings Show the Young Artist’s Playful Seriousness, 24 Jun 2013 in Art&Poetry
• Iggy Pop Conducts a Tour of New York’s Lower East Side, Circa 1993, 21 Jun 2013 in Film&Life&Music
• Philosophy’s Power Couple, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Featured in 1967 TV Interview, 20 Jun 2013 in Philosophy
• “Performance Philosopher” Jason Silva Introduces Mind-Altering New Video Series, “Shots of Awe”, 19 Jun 2013 in Creativity&Philosophy
• See Stevie Wonder Play “Superstition” and Banter with Grover on Sesame Street in 1973, 19 Jun 2013 in Education&K-12&Music&Television
• Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Releases a “Heavy Metal” Song & Video Recalling His Harsh Imprisonment, 18 Jun 2013 in Art&Music&Politics
• Introducing Wireless Philosophy: An Open Access Philosophy Project Created by Yale and MIT, 18 Jun 2013 in Philosophy
• Rick Wakeman Tells the Story of the Mellotron, the Oddball Proto-Synthesizer Pioneered by the Beatles, 15 Jun 2013 in Music
• The Original 1940s Superman Cartoon: Watch 17 Classic Episodes Free Online, 13 Jun 2013 in Comics/Cartoons&Film
• What Happens on the Internet in 60 Seconds, 12 Jun 2013 in Technology&Web/Tech
• Zen Master Alan Watts Discovers the Secrets of Aldous Huxley and His Art of Dying, 11 Jun 2013 in Life&Literature&Religion
• Patti Smith Reads Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Little Viennese Waltz” in New York City, 10 Jun 2013 in Poetry
• Hear Theodor Adorno’s Avant-Garde Musical Compositions, 07 Jun 2013 in Music&Philosophy
• Buzz Aldrin and Thomas Dolby Geek Out and Sing “She Blinded Me With Science”, 06 Jun 2013 in Comedy&Music&Science
• Neil Young Busts a Music Store for Selling a Bootleg CSNY Album (1971), 06 Jun 2013 in Music
• Bauhaus, Modernism & Other Design Movements Explained by New Animated Video Series, 05 Jun 2013 in Architecture&Art&Design
• Does Math Objectively Exist, or Is It a Human Creation? A New PBS Video Explores a Timeless Question, 05 Jun 2013 in Math&Philosophy
• Watch Animations of Oscar Wilde’s Children’s Stories “The Happy Prince” and “The Selfish Giant”, 04 Jun 2013 in Animation&Film&Literature
• Free: The Great Gatsby & Other Major Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 03 Jun 2013 in Literature
• Watch Phish Play All of The Rolling Stones’ Classic Album, Exile on Main Street, Live in Concert, 31 May 2013 in Music
• Rediscovered: The First American Anti-Nazi Film, Banned by U.S. Censors and Forgotten for 80 Years, 30 May 2013 in Film&History
• Punk Meets High Fashion in Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition PUNK: Chaos to Couture, 30 May 2013 in Art&Design&Museums&Music
• Watch Sir Edmund Hillary Describe His Everest Ascent, on the 60th Anniversary of His Climb, 29 May 2013 in History
• Hear Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording, 29 May 2013 in Poetry
• Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico Reunite, Play Acoustic Velvet Underground Songs on French TV, 1972, 28 May 2013 in Music
• Piotr Dumala’s Artful Animations of Literary Works by Kafka & Dostoevsky, 27 May 2013 in Animation&Film&Literature
• Blackie Pagano Shows Off Vintage Guitar Amps, Including One That Belonged to Django Reinhardt, 24 May 2013 in Music
• Watch Tom Waits, Bill Murray, and Other Modern Bards Read Some of Your Favorite Classic Poems, 22 May 2013 in Poetry
• Daniel Dennett Presents Seven Tools For Critical Thinking, 21 May 2013 in Philosophy
• Allen Ginsberg’s “Celestial Homework”: A Reading List for His Class “Literary History of the Beats”, 20 May 2013 in Education&Poetry
• How Famous Writers — From J.K. Rowling to William Faulkner — Visually Outlined Their Novels, 17 May 2013 in Literature
• Keith Richards Waxes Philosophical, Plays Live with His Idol, the Great Muddy Waters, 16 May 2013 in Music
• Jimi Hendrix’s Final Interview on September 11, 1970: Listen to the Complete Audio, 15 May 2013 in Music
• Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Kiss My Ass”, 14 May 2013 in Literature
• The Art of Sylvia Plath: Revisit Her Sketches, Self-Portraits, Drawings & Illustrated Letters, 14 May 2013 in Art&Literature
• In 1969 Telegram, Jimi Hendrix Invites Paul McCartney to Join a Super Group with Miles Davis, 13 May 2013 in Music
• How Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive Will Preserve the Infinite Information on the Web, 11 May 2013 in Archives&Internet Archive&Technology&TED Talks&Web/Tech
• A Theory of Justice, the Musical Imagines Philosopher John Rawls as a Time-Traveling Adventurer, 09 May 2013 in Philosophy&Theatre
• David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech “This is Water” Visualized in a Short Film, 08 May 2013 in Graduation Speech&Life&Literature
• Steven Soderbergh Writes Twitter Novella After His Retirement From Filmmaking, 08 May 2013 in Film&Literature&Twitter
• The Philosophy of Kierkegaard, the First Existentialist Philosopher, Revisited in 1984 Documentary, 07 May 2013 in Philosophy
• James Joyce Plays the Guitar (1915), 06 May 2013 in Literature&Music
• David Bowie Recalls the Strange Experience of Inventing the Character Ziggy Stardust (1977), 01 May 2013 in Music
• Rare Miles Davis Live Recordings Capture the Jazz Musician at the Height of His Powers, 30 Apr 2013 in Music
• Jane Austen, Game Theorist: UCLA Poli Sci Prof Finds Shrewd Strategy in “Cluelessness”, 26 Apr 2013 in Books&Literature
• Listen to Iggy & The Stooges’ New Album Ready to Die — Online For a Limited Time, 25 Apr 2013 in Music
• The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, 25 Apr 2013 in Books&History
• Two Beautifully-Crafted Russian Animations of Chekhov’s Classic Children’s Story “Kashtanka”, 22 Apr 2013 in Animation&Literature
• Read the First Page of Thomas Pynchon’s New Novel, Bleeding Edge, 21 Apr 2013 in Books&Literature
• New Documentary Brings You Inside Africa’s Little-Known Punk Rock Scene, 19 Apr 2013 in Film&Music
• Martin Heidegger Talks About Language, Being, Marx & Religion in Vintage 1960s Interviews, 18 Apr 2013 in Philosophy
• Friedrich Nietzsche & Existentialism Explained to Five-Year-Olds (in Comical Video by Reddit), 17 Apr 2013 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Sex Pistols Frontman Johnny Rotten Weighs In On Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Madonna & Katy Perry, 16 Apr 2013 in Music
• The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” Reworked from Major to Minor Scale; Ella’s “Summertime” Goes Minor to Major, 16 Apr 2013 in Music
• The Police Sing “Message in a Bottle” for the First Time Live (1979), 15 Apr 2013 in Music
• 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy Explains the Big Bang, Relativity & More with Fun Animation, 08 Apr 2013 in Animation&Astronomy
• Daniel Dennett and Cornel West Decode the Philosophy of The Matrix, 05 Apr 2013 in Film&Philosophy
• A Young, Clean Cut Jim Morrison Appears in a 1962 Florida State University Promo Film, 03 Apr 2013 in Music
• A Look Back at Jim Carroll: How the Poet and Basketball Diaries Author Finally Finished His First Novel, 02 Apr 2013 in Film&Literature&Music&Poetry
• Rock and Roll Heart, 1998 Documentary Retraces the Remarkable Career of Lou Reed, 01 Apr 2013 in Music
• William Faulkner’s Newly-Discovered Short Story and Drawings, 29 Mar 2013 in Art&Literature
• Meet Delia Derbyshire, the Dr. Who Composer Who Almost Turned The Beatles’ “Yesterday” Into Early Electronica, 29 Mar 2013 in Music
• Stanley Kubrick’s Jazz Photography and The Film He Almost Made About Jazz Under Nazi Rule, 27 Mar 2013 in Film&History&Music&Photography
• Creative Uses of the Fax Machine: From Iggy Pop’s Bile to Stephen Hawking’s Snark, 26 Mar 2013 in History&Life&Random
• Frank Zappa Reads NSFW Passage From William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1978), 25 Mar 2013 in History&Literature
• How Pi Was Nearly Changed to 3.2 … and Copyrighted!, 22 Mar 2013 in History&Math
• Three Raymond Carver Stories, Read by Richard Ford, Anne Enright, and David Means, 20 Mar 2013 in Literature
• Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla Face Off in “Epic Rap Battles of History”, 19 Mar 2013 in Comedy&History&Science
• Watch Philip Roth, Now 80, Read from His Irreverent Classic, Portnoy’s Complaint, 19 Mar 2013 in Literature
• Adrian Belew Presents the Fine Art of Making Guitar Noise — Past, Present, and Future, 18 Mar 2013 in Music
• Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus Highlights 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education, 14 Mar 2013 in Books&Literature
• Rare Live Footage Documents The Clash From Their Raw Debut to the Career-Defining London Calling (1977–1980), 13 Mar 2013 in Music
• The “Amen Break”: The Most Famous 6‑Second Drum Loop & How It Spawned a Sampling Revolution, 12 Mar 2013 in Music
• John Steinbeck Reads Two Short Stories, “The Snake” and “Johnny Bear” in 1953, 12 Mar 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• Watch The Band Play “The Weight,” “Up On Cripple Creek” and More in Rare 1970 Concert Footage, 08 Mar 2013 in Music
• Hear Jamaica Kincaid’s Classic Story “Girl” Read by Fellow New Yorker Writer Edwidge Danticat, 07 Mar 2013 in Literature&Podcasts&Writing
• Hear Zora Neale Hurston Sing the Bawdy Prison Blues Song “Uncle Bud” (1940), 07 Mar 2013 in Film&History&Literature&Music
• Pac-Man, Tetris, SimCity & Other Classic Video Games Opening Friday at the Museum of Modern Art, 06 Mar 2013 in Art
• Leonard Cohen Narrates Film on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Featuring the Dalai Lama (1994), 05 Mar 2013 in Film&Religion
• Free: Listen to Dave Grohl’s Soundtrack for New Film Celebrating the Days of Analog Recording, 04 Mar 2013 in Film&Music
• Patti Smith’s Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Strips the Song Down to its Heart, 04 Mar 2013 in Music
• The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln, 01 Mar 2013 in History&Literature&Poetry
• See Jimi Hendrix’s First TV Appearance, and His Last as a Backing Musician (1965), 27 Feb 2013 in Music&Television
• Johnny Cash Stars as a Menacing, Musical Gangster in 1961 Film Five Minutes to Live, 26 Feb 2013 in Film&Music
• Learn to Code with Harvard’s Intro to Computer Science Course And Other Free Tech Classes, 26 Feb 2013 in Harvard&MOOCs&Online Courses&Technology
• David Foster Wallace’s 1994 Syllabus: How to Teach Serious Literature with Lightweight Books, 25 Feb 2013 in Literature
• Discover Ansel Adams’ 226 Photos of U.S. National Parks (and Another Side of the Legendary Photographer), 22 Feb 2013 in Photography
• Queen Documentary Pays Tribute to the Rock Band That Conquered the World, 21 Feb 2013 in Film&Music
• From The Stooges to Iggy Pop: 1986 Documentary Charts the Rise of Punk’s Godfather, 20 Feb 2013 in Film&Music
• The Unbelievers, A New Film Starring Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Werner Herzog, Woody Allen, & Cormac McCarthy, 19 Feb 2013 in Film&Religion&Science
• Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 18 Feb 2013 in Art&Books&Design&Literature
• The BBC Presents a New Dramatization of Orwell’s 1984, with Christopher Eccleston as Winston Smith, 15 Feb 2013 in Literature&Politics&Radio
• “PoemTalk” Podcast, Where Impresario Al Filreis Hosts Lively Chats on Modern Poetry, 14 Feb 2013 in Literature&Podcasts&Poetry
• How a Baltimore Hairdresser Became a World-Renowned “Hair Archaeologist” of Ancient Rome, 13 Feb 2013 in History&Life