On November 9, 2006, Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, will join panelists Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, and Fred Turner at Stanford University’s
A recent review in Booklist gives a thumbs-up to Roger Ebert’s new book, Awake in the Dark: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews: Ebert,
CBGB, the legendary New York night club that spawned some of the most colorful icons of the punk genre—Patti Smith, Blondie, the Ramones—closed last Sunday,
Mark your calendar and set your Tivo accordingly … Carl Smith will be discussing his latest book, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the
The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the century. During the years of
Leading readers on a journey through scientific attempts to envision the best of all possible worlds, from Galileo to superstring theory, Ekeland explores the legacy
John Brockman’s Edge, a Web forum for some of today’s most brilliant intellectual outsiders, currently features a long article on Stewart Brand, ‘60s counterculture, and
Peter H. Rossi, distinguished sociologist and author, died Saturday at his home in Amherst, MA, where he was professor emeritus of sociology at the University
The Google Print Library Project is the latest of Google’s efforts to digitally copy and distribute the holdings of several of the world’s largest libraries—a