Articles tagged "editor"

Column: Marginal Utility

Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

by Rob Horning

[27.Mar.09] :. In a sense, panic is an imprecise word to describe the emotion of financial crashes; paranoia better suits.

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Last Lion by Peter S. Canellos

by Tim O'Brien [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[24.Mar.09] :. If you want a peek inside America's royal family, this is a must-read, with details that only Boston Globe reporters could know.

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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964 by Susan Sontag

by Carmelo Militano

[6.Mar.09] :. Sontag's journals suggest that the self is a conditional and transitory creation; elusive and slippery as an artful lover who wants to be a writer.

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Column: Deconstruction Zone

Blind Man with a Pistol: Ishmael Reed’s Misguided Pow-Wow

by Rodger Jacobs

[26.Feb.09] :. Anyone who has witnessed affirmative action policies in play can tell you that bad apples are chosen to fulfill a quota, not unlike a cop who harasses every citizen who bears a vague resemblance to a wanted suspect.

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Best Food Writing 2008, ed. Holly Hughes

by Carolyn W. Fanelli

[18.Dec.08] :. Molecular gastronomy? Check. Locavores? Check. Post-Katrina restaurant recovery? Cloned meat? Paeans to the wonders of pig? Check, check, check.

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The Best of Sexology, ed. Craig Yoe

by Carmelo Militano

[16.Dec.08] :. In1933 Gernsback published a pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-scientific magazine devoted to sex and all its mysteries, vagaries, varieties -- not to mention all its anxieties.

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The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

by Wilson McBee

[2.Dec.08] :. Ginsberg was hyperaware of the frequent charge that Beat poetry was little more than improvised mumbo jumbo baked from jazz records and marijuana smoke.

New Stories from the South 2008: The Year’s Best

by Justin Dimos

[23.Sep.08] :. Flannery O'Conner's hauntingly gothic South meets the modern American search for meaning in yet another superb edition of this series.

Arcade Fire and H.G. Wells: The Lies Machine

by Colin Snowsell

[11.Aug.08] :. Pop music may still travel in revolutions, but not along a fixed course maintaining an even degree of distance from its point of origin. Like a moon intolerant of its gravitation pull, each cycle drifts us further and further from the cycle before it.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by

by Peter Swanson

[22.Feb.08] :. The good stories are terrific reads and the not-so-good stories are never dull.

Songs, Swoosh-ified

by Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

[13.Feb.08] :. The quintessential element of the digital audio revolution is the creation of the ‘random’ button, that default 'shuffle function', which renders us no longer creators of mix-tapes, but consumers of playlists.

The Portable Atheist

by Barry Lenser

[5.Feb.08] :. Sectarian strife, an historical constant, and its images of suicide bombings, occupation, and crumbling civil societies are sadly ubiquitous and have fueled the passions of the “New Atheism”. This will not soon abate.

Comic Art 9

by Tim O'Neil

[25.Jan.08] :. Stack this book next to Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art and McCloud's Understanding Comics -- or rather, don't stack it at all, but keep it right next to your desk where you can find it at a moment's notice.

Lead Us Not Into Speculation, Nor Excessive Computation

by George Reisch and Nick Bostrom

[15.Jan.08] :. A prominent philosopher argues that you, me, and everyone you know may be an artificial computer-simulation of a person.

Sleaze Artists by Jeffrey Sconce

by Mikita Brottman

[3.Jan.08] :. It must surely be daunting for any young film scholar with an interest in trash to come face to face with the volume of academic work that’s been done on once-disreputable movies.

The Granta Book of Reportage by Ian Jack

by Chris McCann

[17.Dec.07] :. In an era of media overload and addiction to the immediate, he's demarcating a space for the measured, thoughtful, and in-depth narratives that can only be put together by the man (or woman) on the ground.

The Agnostic Reader

by Chadwick Jenkins

[30.Nov.07] :. The book would have benefited from more dedicated considerations of the implications of doubt for human understanding and action. Aside from the final section, these concerns were not much in evidence.

Living Blue in the Red States by David Starkey

by Andy Fogle

[26.Nov.07] :. The best of these essays acknowledge the false dichotomy of red and blue, confront personal biases, and outline the disillusionment of the left at both the right and itself.

Read Rage

by Savannah Schroll Guz

[17.Apr.07] :. Moving others to constructive action, whether by persuasive or expository means, as Gutkind has done with Rage and Reconciliation, is the hallmark of socially-engaged literature.

Truth or Dare: A Book of Secrets Shared by Justine Picardie

by Nikki Tranter

[11.Jan.05] :. This is less about confession, and more about who these writers are and how they got that way.

Advertising Annual 2002 and New Talent Design Annual 2002 by B. Martin Pedersen, Editor

by Aaron Beebe

[15.Jan.03] :. From an intellectual property standpoint, creativity is seen more and more as a force of constant innovation.

The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture by Bruce Grenville, Editor

by John Biggs

[30.Oct.02] :. It's a lucid look at the fears that plague academics everywhere...Will I lose tenure to an intelligent toaster oven?"

Conversations with Richard Ford by Huey Guagliardo, Editor

by Mark Dionne

[29.May.02] :. Ford just may be the least catty writer in history. 'Other people's successes do not diminish you, your failures don't help others.'"

Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce by Caitlin Shetterly, editor

by Andy Fogle

The Iwo Jima Memorial or the Wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial hasn't ended human conflict. But we do need those memorials, and we need these stories, if only to look at the names that hover in the shimmering black surface.

Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias by Peter Ludlow

by Patrick Schabe

Essentially, Ludlow is pointing out that an entirely radical social perspective on governance and freedom rests behind the more mundane facts of the Internet explosion.