From the Newsstand
July 1, 2011
The Lively and Maybe Lost Art of the Literary Reading 9
by Alizah Salario
How writers are becoming more accessible online – and less so in person.
May 20, 2011
A Play is a World: Conservative PC, Liberal PC, and Taking Art Seriously 1
by Rob Goodman
All art is engaged in world-building, and it can be accomplished as successfully in 14 lines as in 500 pages.
April 25, 2011
What We Call What Women Write 70
by Deena Drewis
In the wake of comments Jennifer Egan made after her Pulitzer win, former Egan fans are uniting under the notion that in addition to being a meanie, Egan is setting feminists back 50 years. How could she?
February 16, 2011
On Race, Class and the Hollywood ‘Whiteout’ 19
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
What we need are more serious movies with multiracial characters/casts that aren’t SCARE QUOTES MOVIES ABOUT RACE END SCARE QUOTES. We need more movies that simultaneously are and aren’t about race: movies that are dramas and comedies, about love, death, the usual human plots—and also happen to be about race.
January 4, 2011
New Yorker Fiction By the Numbers 7
by Frank Kovarik
Several years ago I started cataloging the fiction published in The New Yorker in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet began merely as a way to keep track of what I’d read, but I soon became curious about what the spreadsheet’s data-sorting capabilities could reveal.
October 21, 2010
No Satisfaction: Keith Richards and the Rock Memoir 9
by Jim Santel
Rock-and-roll memoirs are among the most persistently disappointing literary subgenre. Genius that relies on fleeting inspiration, gut feeling, and unthinking improvisation is ill suited to the slow, reflective process of writing. It takes an outsider to get inside.
