Cracking the Music Genome
/Your father’s FM radio can close up shop, as far as Steve Brachman’s concerned; the music you want is at your fingertips, and you hear it the way you like it, on your computer.
Read Morefrom LA LA LA
/from LA LA LA, a poem by Sampson Starkweather
Read MoreA Fondness for Turtles
/In Following the Water, David C. Carroll has written another paean of praise to the gentle world of pond turtles. But is he writing about a lost world? Tuc McFarland hopes not.
Read MoreIn a Thing So Small
/In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer suggests that science has prematurely evicted a prime mover from cellular biology, and he would like it put back. Ignazio de Vega tests his case.
Read MoreBook Review: How I Became a Famous Novelist
/Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist tells the tale of a writer/'content manager'. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreReview of The Signal
/"You always felt time as a tangible heartbeat in the mountains. The days were short." Dive into Ron Carlson's novel, The Signal, by starting with this review by Sam Sacks.
Read MoreReview of An Expensive Education
/In his review of An Expensive Education, Sam Sacks unearths the vast geopolitical conspiracies being hatched in Nick McDonell's Harvard.
Read MoreAugust 2009 Issue
/“White Sands” by Mark Contino
Read MoreSimmin’ the Good Life
/They live, love, strive, and thrive, but they don’t scrimp, save, hate, or discriminate – is it rapturous capitalism, or virtual virtue? Phillip A. Lobo plays The Sims.
Read MoreFor Your Consideration
/The Academy often forgets Oscar-caliber performances from the first half of the year, but movie maven Sarah Hudson doesn’t! Here are some of her earliest nominations.
Read MoreHe Wanted to Go to Disneyland
/Sure, he banged his shoe on a podium, but there was more than that to the fun-loving, infuriating Khrushchev – lots more, as Kristen Borg finds out in Peter Carlson’s K Blows Top
Read MoreHumanist, Heal Thyself
/In Reason, Faith, and Revolution, literary critic Terry Eagleton joins the contentious “God Debates” popularized by Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Jeremy Kessler moderates the results.
Read MoreThe Dog is Going to Die
/He transformed the American musical – and Judy Garland. Now Vincente Minelli has finally got his due – Brad Jones reviews America’s Dark Dreamer by Emanuel Levy.
Read MoreReview of I Love You, Beth Cooper
/In her review of the movie I Love You, Beth Cooper, Sarah Hudson shares her thoughts on the highs and deep lows of the adolescent rom-com
Read MoreReview of The Evolution of God
/In his review of The Evolution of God, Ignazio de Vega illustrates how Robert Wright investigates the origins of humankind's notions of God.
Read MoreReview of Public Enemies
/Sarah Hudson reviews Michael Mann's Public Enemies, scrambled plot and all: "The exquisite production deserves to be seen on a big screen but no one will blame you if you sit this one out."
Read MoreReview of Reality Check
/Lambrusco describes Peter Abrahams's Reality Check, as "so gripping, so smart, and so completely worthwhile."
Read MoreJuly 2009 Issue
/“Scotland Rearview” by Jeffrey Eaton
Read MoreBejabbers!
/That famous vein of gold (well, mostly silver) made American millionaires, awful tragedies, and Mark Twain. Eli Wanamaker’s literary quarry is Dennis Drabelle’s Mile-High Fever.
Read MoreWishing on a Star (Wars)
/“It’s an energy field that connects us all” Obi-wan Kenobi has told us, and Phillip Lobo attests to the truth of it in his review of the latest Star Wars MMO.
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