Laura Miller is one of the few writers who actually appears to have read and understood His Dark Materials. Even better, she spoke with British clergy who also had read it and "got it," to the extent that they welcomed a work of ideas that led to discussions on the big issues of life, death, mortality, and humanity's place in the cosmos.
Moreover, as one British…
Read all the way to the end and you'll thrill to "the hand of doom."
Plant a tree, for fuck's sake. Lay down some sod. Something.
Something.
Once you arrive, you'll be rushed out onto an unusually clean platform. The word "clinical" might come to mind. You'll climb hundreds of steps before you reach…
Back in the day, I lived on a commune in the country, where we decided to start our careers in animal husbandry with a passel of chickens. Noticing that the kids seemed awfully fond of them, we grew concerned that we were going to run into resistance when it came time to harvest them. Testing the waters, we asked three-year-old Meredith if she liked the chickens.
"Yes," she lisped. "Fried!" You go, girl.
And then there was that piece in the New York Times where the writer, Anthony Tommasini, says the convenience and portability of compressed sound, though neither rich nor deep, is "good…
Our December 2007 issue includes our annual "Products of the Year" feature. Each of Stereophile's hardware reviewers voted on their favorite pieces of gear, John Atkinson and I compiled the article. You can now read it here, too.
I sat down to write the intro on the Monday morning following the Mets' final game of the season. Like a person with the flu, I shouldn't have even been in the office.
Next time some dude comes around talking about how all hi-fi components sound the same, that audiophiles are out of their minds because their beliefs and interests make no scientific sense, politely ask him to read this.