When authors give shout outs to other great works, people, and events, it's usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Thorstein Veblen (2.199-204)
- Jean Baudrillard (2.271)
- Martin Heidegger (2.279, 284)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (2.279)
- Henry Thoreau (2.284)
- William Shakespeare (2.284; throughout)
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (2.294; throughout)
- Michel Foucault (2.296; throughout)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (2.296)
- Virginia Woolf (2.306)
- Carol Gilligan (2.353)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (2.428; throughout)
- Sir. Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (2.566)
- The Selected Letter of André Gide (2.566)
- Lord Byron (2.632)
- Jürgen Habermas, Reason and the Rationalization of Society (2.645, 648)
- Theodor Adorno (2.648)
- Fred Jameson (2.648)
- Stephen Greenblatt (2.648)
- Mary Poovey (2.648)
- Joseph Brodsky (2.878)
- Gunnar Myrdal (2.1031; throughout)
- C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia series (3.12; throughout)
- Søren Kierkegaard (4.596)
- Knut Hamsun (4.620)
- John Updike (4.821)
- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (4.990)
- Friedrich Engels (5.10)
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (5.95; throughout)
- Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (5.186)
- I.B. Singer (5.437)
- Sholem Aleichem (5.437)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (5.630; throughout)
- Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (6.1184)
Historical References
- Mumia Abu-Jamal (2.211)
- Richard Nixon (2.960; 5.4)
- Ronald Reagan (2.960)
- Bill Clinton (2.960)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (2.1013)
- Seminole Tribe (3.34)
- Cherokee Tribe (3.34)
- Navajo Tribe (3.34)
- Shawnee Tribe (3.34)
- Vladimir Lenin (5.10)
- Jimmy Hoffa (5.417)
- Brooke Astor (5.606)
- Jackie Kennedy (5.613)
- Dan Quayle (5.869)
- 1973 Oil Crisis (5.905)
- Muammar Gadhafi (5.907)
- Charles de Gaulle (5.907)
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster (5.944)
- Gestapo/SS (5.946)
- Vytautas the Great (5.946)
- Forest Brothers (5.947)
- Pippi Longstocking (6.39)
Pop Culture References
- "Strangers in the Night," Frank Sinatra (1.10)
- Michael Jackson (2.206)
- Warner Bros. cartoons (2.528)
- Robin Hood (2.925)
- Pokémon (2.1014)
- The Nutcracker (3.200; throughout)
- Dizzy Gillespie (3.292)
- Louis Armstrong (3.292)
- Miles Davis (3.292)
- Chet Baker (3.292)
- Wynton Marsalis (3.292)
- Chuck Mangione (3.292)
- Herb Alpert (3.292)
- Al Hirt (3.292)
- Andrew Wyeth (3.363, 657)
- Winslow Homer (3.363, 657)
- Beanie Babies (3.969)
- Katherine Hepburn (4.712)
- Ingmar Bergman (4.942)
- Frank Sinatra (5.4)
- "Natural's Not In It," Gang of Four (5.12)
- The Minutemen (5.19)
- Moby (5.19)
- Laura Nyro (5.19)
- Thomas Mapfumo (5.19)
- John Prine (5.30)
- Etta James (5.30)
- Béla Bartók (5.30)
- Defunkt (5.30)
- Flaming Lips (5.30)
- Mission of Burma (5.30)
- New Order (5.187, 864)
- Cream (5.187)
- Jimi Hendrix (5.187)
- "The Blue Danube" (5.437)
- "Edelweiss" (5.437)
- Yentl (5.437)
- Richard Wagner (5.438)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (5.441)
- Harvey Keitel (5.581)
- Donna Summer (5.616)
- Greil Marcus (5.630)
- Stephen Malkmus (5.630)
- Wait Until Dark (5.640)
- Something Wild (5.640)
- Jodie Foster (5.758)
- Stanley Tucci (5.775, 789)
- Mira Sorvino (5.775, 778)
- Trent Reznor (5.779, 781)
- The Smiths (5.781)
- Billy Idol (5.781)
- Phish (5.908)
- R.E.M. (5.908)
- Petruska (ballet) (5.909)
- Spice Girls (5.940)
- X Files (5.940)
- Dilbert (5.944)
- Jennifer Aniston from Friends (5.945)
- The Lion King (play) (6.237-238)
- "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (6.934)
- "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" (6.938)
- Metallica (6.950)