- June 2009 Edition -

Introducing a New Magazine About the Ideas Behind American Culture.

Profiles

Professor Parini Goes to Hollywood
Jessica Kaplan | Can this poet find success on the big screen?

A Park Grows in Brooklyn
Nicholas DeRenzo | Michael van Valkenburgh takes back New York’s waterfront.

Black, White and Read Online
Derrick Koo | Can Khoi Vinh save The New York Times?

Bad Foundations
Flora Fair | Alyssa Katz tells us that the roots of the housing crisis run much deeper than we think.

Canon Fodder
Ian Crouch | Sean Shesgreen fires a shot at the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

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Q&A

Deciphering Cryptozoology
Peter Koch | Loren Coleman defines cryptozoology and says, once and for all, that it is science.

The Outsider
Nicholas DeRenzo | Michael Musto on snark.

Smashing the Template
Derrick Koo | Elliot Jay Stocks discusses the future of web design.

Free Market Protectionism
Flora Fair | Cambridge Professor Ha-Joon Chang on the limits of capitalism.

News in Brief
Lily Quateman | Craig Kanalley offers international reporting on the cheap.

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Reviews

Living to Tell the Tale
Margaret Wheeler Johnson | On the Origin of Stories, by Brian Boyd.

Un-forbidden Fruit
Jessica Kaplan | For the Common Good, by Matthew W. Fink and Robert C. Post.

Not Your Mother’s Travel Writer
Nicholas DeRenzo | Bangkok Days, by Lawrence Osborne.

Giving a Damn
Anna Bak-Kvapil | Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, by Molly Haskell.

The Global City
Flora Fair | Welcome to the Urban Revolution, by Jeb Brugman.

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