From the Newsstand
March 4, 2009
From the Newsstand: Michael Lewis Goes to Iceland 0
by C. Max Magee
Michael Lewis turns in yet another tremendous piece in the current issue of Vanity Fair. This one is about the catastrophic financial collapse in Iceland: Walking into the P.M.’s minute headquarters, I expect to be stopped and searched, or at least asked for photo identification. Instead I find a single policeman sitting behind a reception [...]
March 2, 2009
A New Quarterly Conversation 0
by C. Max Magee
A new issue of the excellent online literary review, The Quarterly Conversation has been posted. There are plenty of goodies on offer, but perhaps the most intriguing is a piece by François Monti about Zone, a French novel by Mathias Énard that has certain literary corners of Europe buzzing. It’s got quite a hook: Zone, [...]
February 24, 2009
From the Newsstand: Ian McEwan Week 1
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Last week, The New Yorker ran a profile (subscription required) of Ian McEwan that was scarcely shorter than McEwan’s most recent novel, On Chesil Beach. For all its expansiveness, however, the article failed to offer readers the supreme pleasure of McEwan’s best fiction: a kind of psychological X-ray. And where writer Daniel Zalewski did manage [...]
February 19, 2009
A Guy, His Brother, and the Broken Mental Health System 0
by C. Max Magee
My neighbor and friend Jacob Lambert wrote a powerful piece for Philadelphia Weekly recently about his brother David, who has been diagnosed with acute bipolar disorder: I was at home in Bella Vista when he called. Last I’d heard he’d “eloped” from the hospital and was wandering his old East Village haunts. This was nothing [...]
February 17, 2009
From the Newsstand: Michael Lewis on Shane Battier 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
We at The Millions are fans of great sports journalism and of Michael Lewis, so recommending Lewis’ New York Times Magazine feature on Houston Rockets forward Shane Battier is a no-brainer. The hook: Here we have a basketball mystery: a player is widely regarded inside the N.B.A. as, at best, a replaceable cog in a [...]
December 28, 2008
A List With A Twist Revisited 2
by Andrew Saikali
In the spring, we reported on an unusual event unfolding in the Books pages of The Globe and Mail. Each week, through 2008, someone – typically a published author or an academic – would write an essay for the Globe championing a book. Fifty books in total. They were not ranked in any order, and [...]
