Rachel Kushner Remembers Her Hard-Rocking Friends, Many of Whom Are Gone

“I am the one who lived to tell,” Kushner writes in the title essay — a memoir about growing up in a San Francisco where girls became strippers or cocktail waitresses and boys became skateboarders or skinheads, or worked as bouncers “in between prison stints.” Kushner and her friends are “ratty delinquents” who cut school to hang out in gambling parlors and head shops or with a Hare Krishna who may or may not be a singer for the Cro-Mags.

- NY Times

 

La justice reconnaît « l’exception de parodie » d’un peintre fusionnant Tintin avec Hopper

Un tribunal français a débouté lundi la société Moulinsart qui poursuivait, pour contrefaçon et atteinte au droit moral d’Hergé, un peintre français dont les œuvres mêlent l’univers de Tintin et d’Edward Hopper.

- Le Devoir

The man who thought orgasms could save the world

Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich fell out with Freud, led the 'sexual revolution' and became a hippie icon. As a new book about him comes out, Neil Armstrong explores his life and legacy.

The orgasm, it is generally accepted, is A Good Thing. An intensely pleasurable experience that can promote bonding between partners. But might it be even more than that? Do orgasms prevent illness? In fact, are orgasms linked not just to the well-being of the human body but to the health of the body politic? Are they intrinsically anti-fascist? Can they prevent totalitarianism?

- BBC