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Bend Sinister

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American Beauty

Or: Blackboard Jungle, Continued   Click image for   a related story.

Sacred and Profane

(Continued from yesterday afternoon) This journal on December 12th, 2009— Cover illustration— Arithmetic and Music, Borgia Apartments, The Vatican Compare and contrast with Frenkel at the Fields Institute—

Outsider Art

(Continued from yesterday afternoon) From yesterday's online New York Times  (5:59 PM ET)— ART REVIEW A Tension Between the Sacred and the Profane What exactly are we looking at?…

Unscientific Postscript

" What you mean 'we' ? "

Communion of Saints

For Hugh Jackman,  St. Gall,  and Delmore Schwartz "All the saints have powers."

Outsider Art

"… Galois was a mathematical outsider…." — Tony Mann, "head of the department of mathematical sciences, University of Greenwich, and president, British Society for the History of Mathematics," in…

Outsider

The late Colin Wilson appears at the head of this afternoon's New York Times  obituaries — Margalit Fox's description this afternoon of  Wilson's first book, from 1956— "The Outsider  had an aim…

Howl (continued)

See the Telegraph  obituary of Jim Hall and a post on Charlie Christian (and others). The inclusion of D. H. Lawrence in that post suggests a review of…

The Well-Tempered Monolith

"My God, it's full of numbers!"