Category Archives: Other Magazine

June 2005 Schadenfreude. Sha. Den. Froy. Duh. It hardly trips off the tongue, and that’s part of the point. Translated damagejoy, it was up to our friends in Germany—connoisseurs of suffering with wry wit–to cast this lexical spell. (Maybe it’s … (more…)

February 2003 In 1995 Jeremy Narby dropped une bombe with the publication of Le Serpent Cosmique. Available in English as The Cosmic Serpent since 1998, it is the story of an academic investigation that became an astral awakening. A Stanford-trained … (more…)

June 2004 It was not until I moved into a house near a ketchup factory that I first perceived the all-encompassing, smothering embrace of our national vegetable. When the night was still, a cool inversion keeping the air low to … (more…)

June 2003 Here’s a typical encounter: I walk into a store, or meet someone at a party, and we engage in the usual pleasantries. Then, as though we are now intimate—for it is nothing if not an intimate question—I am … (more…)