From the Newsstand
August 16, 2010
The Franzen Cover and a Brief History of Time 15
by Craig Fehrman
A look at Time’s 83 literary coverboys and -girls reveals a waffling between reaching out and selling out that, today, we’d describe as Franzean.
June 7, 2010
The Risks of Fiction: On The New Yorker Writers Under 40 List 6
by Frank Kovarik
The rewards of fiction can be greater than that of nonfiction—the ecstatic feeling of transport when you’re pulled into the world of a story, given a new window into human experience—but you can also come away from a story angry that the writer has just wasted 45 minutes of your life.
May 3, 2010
Will the iPad Change Publishing? Ask The Atlantic 11
by Lizzie Skurnick
The cover of Fiction 2010 offers, to say the least, a provocative vision. The future is plentiful and bright—and there is not an iPad in sight.
April 7, 2010
Connecting Readers in the Cloud 2
by Victoria Pacchiana
What if I couldn’t judge a book by a yoga mat? Would I find better matches, or perhaps more accurate ones?
February 3, 2010
Ample Reason America is Ruined, One Good Reason it’s Not 2
by Kevin Hartnett
James Fallows thinks about government like a broken down car, such that no matter how skilled the driver or where he wants to go, he’s not going to get there. We might have been better off if that were true.
September 30, 2009
Lapham’s Quarterly On Medicine 2
by Anne K. Yoder
This issue of Lapham’s Quarterly caters to a different kind of medical knowledge: the history of medicine.
