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Super Poems
The Human Torch burning bright In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost’s poem Road Not Taken, fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. … more →
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Super Poems
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen wrote 1 month ago: The Human Torch burning bright In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost’s poem Road Not Taken, fictio … more →
Banner image: John Sell Cotman
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Ian Garrick Mason wrote 2 months ago: Though few members of the public give much thought to ranking the prestige of different art forms, i … more →
The Eiffel Tower: Victim or Monster
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Jeet Heer wrote 3 months ago: Toppling the Eiffel Tower: a common fantasy. If movie trailers are to be trusted, the new G.I. Joe f … more →
Deodorant Ads Help Us Learn About an Important Word: Incitement
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen wrote 3 months ago: A problem and solution all in one ad. Sophie Pollitt-Cohen writes: Important ideas are all aroun … more →
Pages From a Reading Life
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Jeet Heer wrote 3 months ago: Pages Books as seen through Michael Cho's eyes. Pages Books and Magazines opened in 1979, so it … more →
Banner image: John Wolseley
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Ian Garrick Mason wrote 3 months ago: A detail from “A History of Parrots, Drifting Maps and Warming Seas”, by John Wolseley ( … more →
A Garden at Last for Kolakowski
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john haffner wrote 4 months ago: I was sorry to hear from Jeet’s recent post that Leszek Kolakowski had died. A … more →
Noblesse Oblige from Japan Tobacco
john haffner wrote 4 months ago: The Wall Street Journal has just translated from Japanese a hilarious interv … more →
Banner image: Henrik Håkansson
Ian Garrick Mason wrote 4 months ago: A detail from Henrik Håkansson’s Broken Forest (2006). Håkansson is a Swedish artist (he … more →
Support Our Loops
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Sophie Pollitt-Cohen wrote 4 months ago: What are these people talking about? Sophie Pollitt-Cohen writes: Ads for the new movie “In The Lo … more →
Banner image: Bruce Haley
Ian Garrick Mason wrote 4 months ago: A detail from a picture in Bruce Haley’s “Timber Industry” project, shot in Oregon … more →
The Uses of Nostalgia
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Jeet Heer wrote 4 months ago: Robert Crumb’s nostalgia for that old time music. Nostalgia is a suspect emotion, both psych … more →
Listen to Metcalf
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Jeet Heer wrote 5 months ago: John Metcalf. As I often note, we at Sans Everything are nothing if not eclectic in our passions: an … more →
Cleopatra's Dessert and Shark Fin Soup
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john haffner wrote 5 months ago: At a Brussels nuclear law conference in 2007, I gave a technical paper on intergeneratio … more →
Tennis Vagabond: a story of tennis, evil and everything else
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john haffner wrote 5 months ago: Sans Everything depends not only on its writers, but also its readers. Given the huge di … more →
The Achievement of Chris Oliveros
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Jeet Heer wrote 5 months ago: Adrian Tomine’s portrait of Chris Oliveros. Drawn and Quarterly, one of the world’s prem … more →
Introducing Sophie Pollitt-Cohen
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Jeet Heer wrote 5 months ago: Blogs are driven by passion, and a notable feature of Sans Everything is the cacophony of competing … more →
Banner image: Matt Schlian
Ian Garrick Mason wrote 6 months ago: A detail from Matt Schlian’s “Omnivore”. Schlian is a paper engineer and teacher; … more →
An Orphan Annie Interview
Jeet Heer wrote 6 months ago: Perhaps my happiest experience as a freelance writer was publishing in Lingua Franca, the late, much … more →
