Yes, that’s not a typo. Alaska’s most famous airhead Sarah Palin will have some competition when her memoir Going Rogue: An American Life is aborted into bookstores November 17th.
The Nation’s editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed have rounded up an army of writers who have contributed essays on the mavericky …

We may roll our eyes at Muse’s latest bombast or Coldplay’s pussyrock du jour, but Radiohead has largely escaped the pungent smell of artifice that clings to most melodramatic musical acts.

The band survives this scrutiny with music that can be frightening in its sincerity.

But out of all of the ‘Head’s gloomy tunes, could one actually stand out as the gloomiest? Yes! and frontman Thom Yorke singles out Street Spirit (Fade Out) from the album The Bends for this honor.

Yorke is quoted as saying:

“Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have

Twitter has become a phenomenal  way for people to stay in touch.
Famous personalities, from d-list losers all the way up to the president himself take advantage of this medium to gab, jaw and shoot the shit about anything and everything…in 140 characters or less of course.
Inevitably, Twitter has also become …

Savethewords.org is a unique site which aims to boost the exposure of some uncommon words…
Featuring such jewels as panchymagogue: “medicine purging body fluids from the body” and tetanothurm: “a cosmetic for removing wrinkles”, the site may seem geeky at first, but is pulling for a worthy cause.
Languages have been going …

Have nothing to do this weekend and feel like reading the longest novel of the 20th century? Then step right up to Vikram Seth’s mammoth A Suitable Boy, a book which is good for what it is, but not good enough for what it should be….
The main thing is the …