The New York Review of Ideas » Q&A | June 2009

Q&A

Questions for those taking on the big questions.

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.

The Subversive Music of Islam and the Middle East
Habib Battah | Arkansas Professor Ted Swedenburg explores the genre of Interzone.

A Deeply Weird Human Being
Ian Crouch | Talking John Cheever with Blake Bailey.

Out of Our Minds
Margaret Wheeler Johnson | UC Berkeley’s Alva Noe argues that there is more to perception than the brain.

The Last Picture Show
Anna Bak-Kvapil | J. Hoberman on the end of movies as we know them.

War of the Words
Jessica Kaplan | Dean Falk argues that women gave birth to language.

Man in the Mirror
Frances Pollitzer | Brian Kelly wants to tattoo his face on your body.