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Personal computers entered the market in 1977, with RadioShack’s TRS-80, Commodore’s PET,…

Rhyme some slang and win a t-shirt.

Were you born between 1964-73? You’re NOT a Gen Xer!

Alienated, analytical, funny social/cultural critics tend to be born in “3″ and “4″ years. Why?

Nothing prepares you for your first time.

Hip hop, zines, alt-culture comics, post-punk, hardcore…

A lost generation born from 1954-63.

The Port of Mahon, from a 1764 engraving showing the Fort San Felipe

Mayonnaise: the sauce that launched a thousand ships.

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The Boomers’ collective capacity for “imaginative suggestibility” is huge.

Darwin’s dangerous idea does more than explain the existence of life in…

One hundred years ago — or a hundred and one, depending on…

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The mere possibility of an impending announcement of a tablet from Apple…

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The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at…

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I had just removed his hand — gently, I hope — from…

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As a child, John Carrera was fascinated by the trove of yellowing…

Minute Maid ad from <em>Family Circle</em>, 10/17/08

A cherubic angel heralds the advent of Minute Maid Heart Wise orange…

Death in the Library

I asked you to describe the ideal book, one that would save…

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Members of the generational cohort born from 1934-43 were in their teens…

<em>great plot, but little by way of character development</em>

Listening to NPR yesterday morning for the first time in a month…

Jasper Johns's "Flag," 1954

A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art.

This item is excerpted from…

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Members of the generational cohort born from 1924-33 were in their teens…

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The New York Times Magazine recently published a cover story about Spike…

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Members of the generational cohort born from 1914-23 were in their teens…

Dwight Macdonald, anti-middlebrow critic

High-, low-, no-, and hilobrow members of the Partisan Generation include: Albert…