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June 8, 2023: Issue #44
Reflections on the decisive epicentrality of the year 1913, or more specifically the year 1913-4, to absolutely everything that has ensued since…
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Lawrence Weschler
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June 1, 2023 : Wondercab Mini (43A)
Sorry, we've gone fishin'. Wondercab rejoices in the cold, clear waters of summer...
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Lawrence Weschler
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May 2023
May 25, 2023 : Issue #43
The response my modernist composer grandfather Ernst Toch sent to a young composition student who’d sent him a piece of his own, asking advice; opening…
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Lawrence Weschler
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May 18, 2023 : Wondercab Mini (42A)
Hiroshi Kondo’s mind-gawping 2019 short on scooter rush hour in Taipei: and, at the other extreme, the soft squishy intelligence of Spanish octopuses...
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Lawrence Weschler
May 11, 2023 : Issue #42
"Shuddering to Think" -- a climate-change one-act play commissioned from Jon Robin Baitz back in 2006; plus a heads-up about a current NYC exhibit of…
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Lawrence Weschler
May 4, 2023 : Wondercab Mini (41A)
Clinical conditions of the tongue, and of the worldwide geopolitic...
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Lawrence Weschler
April 2023
April 27, 2023 : Issue #41
This time out a special issue in which my own family, across various instantiations and to varying degrees, confronts and colludes in the relentless…
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Lawrence Weschler
April 20, 2023 : Wondercab Mini (40A)
An improbable breakthrough in the mathematics of tiling, one that had eluded the likes of the eminent Nobel laureate Roger Penrose (Stephen Hawking’s…
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April 13, 2023 : Issue #40
The memoir of Salka Viertel, who fled Hitler to the vexed and vexing paradise of Southern California; a remembrance of Wolfgang Schivelbusch; and a…
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April 6, 2023 : Wondercab Mini (39A)
A handful of quick videos showing the latest confoundingly paradoxical cardboard painted maquettes by nonagenarian Holocaust-surviving Hidden Master…
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Lawrence Weschler
March 2023
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