From the Newsstand
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.
August 10, 2009
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
August 6th marked the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and today marks the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.
August 7, 2009
Socialism Vs. the Beautiful Game 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
Millions readers who follow European soccer, the progress of democratic socialism, or international tax policies may be interested in Jonathan Last’s article in the Weekly Standard this week about how Gordon Brown’s recent tax hike – from 40% to 50% on the top tax bracket – is decimating the English Premier League. (And yes, I [...]
July 27, 2009
At the London Review of Books: Clancy Martin on Alcoholism 2
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
In the LRB this month, professor and novelist Clancy Martin offers a brutally candid account of his own attempts to get sober. The piece is affecting, horrifying, and enlightening: As a child I visited my older sister in a psychiatric hospital, but I hadn’t been inside one for 30 years. Then, on 1 January this [...]
June 3, 2009
From the Newsstand: Workshop Porn 1
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Its laudatory impulses notwithstanding, Louis Menand’s worthwhile essay in the current New Yorker on Mark McGurl’s The Program Era – an account of the rise of the creative writing program – doesn’t quite save the book from sounding depressing. For those with ambitions to write fiction, Menand offers a whirlwind tour of a sausage factory. [...]
March 11, 2009
From the Newsstand: Lorrie Moore on Barthelme 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
One of the familiar knocks on the short story master Donald Barthelme is that his fiction is all artifice – that, to quote Saul Bellow, it “lack[s] an inner life.” Well, Lorrie Moore, having digested the new Barthelme biography, Hiding Man, is having none of it. “In a way,” she explains in the current New [...]
