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by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels Princeton Architectural Press, 216 pp., $19.95 JULIANNE VANWAGENEN What do The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Electric Information Age Book have in common? They both have Tom Wolfe, the Grateful Dead, Allen...

by Svetlana Boym Basic Books, 404 pp., $22.00 CHRISTOPHER BROWN - Riddles for Longing “Somewhere on the frontier, the ghost of Dostoevsky meets the ghost of Mickey Mouse. Like the characters from The Possessed, they exchange wry smiles.” Thus concludes...

by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels Princeton Architectural Press, 216 pp., $19.95 JOHN WELSH - The Message of the Book By dawn’s early light a young couple neck on Avenue A in New York’s lower East Side. In her left hand she holds a paperback copy of...