Critic/contrarian Armond White’s 2011 Better-Than-List uses one movie to beat up on another. It’s grand reading—read it in full! A few choice snips:
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- Buckminster Fuller Rambles Beautifully About Death
- Letter and Corrected Reprint of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain, My Captain” with Comments by Author
- Ned Flanders Reads Harry Potter
- Topless Hemingway, Part IV
- Siphonophorae — Ernst Haeckel
- Alan Moore Talks Apocalypse (Video)
- “My Tone Is Not Meant to Be Obnoxious. I Am in a State of Shock” — Flannery O’Connor Responds to an English Professor
- Kurt Vonnegut on Story Shapes (Video)
- Teju Cole’s Open City Is a Strange, Marvelous Novel That Captures the Post-9/11 Zeitgeist
- Gertrude Stein Next to Her Portrait (Portrait by Picasso; Photo by Man Ray; Commentary by David Markson)
- Book Acquired, 2.15.2012
- Teddy Roosevelt on The Simpsons
- A Chart of U.S. Presidents Who Sported Facial Hair
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