05.21.01 | Daily
On the Block
Benjamin Anastas on the auction of Jack Kerouac's notorious scroll

04.23.01 | Dialog
Nicholson Baker: The FEED Dialog
Author Nicholson Baker talks about why our top libraries are destroying books and newspapers.

03.30.01 | Daily
Appetite for Destruction
Pete Rojas on the economist who made layoffs hip

03.21.01 | Daily
Kiss Me, I Might Be Irish
Scott McLemee on why ethnic identity no longer exists

03.16.01 | Pagebound
Writing for No One
Across four decades, David Markson has been a writers' writer, a literary avant-gardist who has never cared for anything but books. Keith Gessen says it's time he got his critical due.

03.05.01 | Daily
Through a Lens Darkly
Josh Saunders on Philip K. Dick, last of the early Christians

02.26.01 | Daily
Heavenly Host
Robyn Creswell on James Merrill's partly true confessions

02.08.01 | Daily
The Meat is the Message
Josh Saunders on one man's libidinous year-long dialogue with a fast food franchise

02.07.01 | Daily
Deconstructive Criticism
Russell Jacoby on Marjorie Garber's Academic Instincts

02.06.01 | Essay
Strictly From Hunger
Mike Davis' most recent tome, Late Victorian Holocausts, argues that famines aren't natural disasters -- they're ideological weapons. Chase Madar reads between the lines.

01.29.01 | Deep Read
Father Figurines
Tyrant, hero, bully, ninny -- pop culture can't seem to decide what to make of dear old Dad. Chris Lehmann questions authority.

01.22.01 | Pagebound
Dissecting The Body Artist
Keith Gessen and Sam Lipsyte discuss the new DeLillo.

01.09.01 | Daily
The Next Yugoslavia?
Robyn Creswell on the potential time bomb in the Caucasus region

01.04.01 | Daily
Jean Sees Dead People
Scott McLemee on Baudrillard's predictions for the millennium

12.28.00 | Daily
Outrageous Fortune
Steven Zeitchik on what Hillary's book deal means for publishing

12.20.00 | Interview
RE: Michael Chabon
The author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay talks to Stephen Burt about graphic novels, the perfect suburb, and affairs with the ideal reader.

12.13.00 | Interview
RE: Jonathan Lethem
Andrew Weiner talks to the award-winning novelist about his new anthology on amnesia, fiction as false memory, and the necessary art of forgetting.

12.05.00 | Daily
The Old Old Thing
Scott McLemee on writer Anthony Grafton's obsession with Renaissance men

11.30.00 | Essay
Wilde At Heart
One hundred years after Oscar Wilde's death, Adam Kirsch discovers a writer that could have been.

11.22.00 | Interview
RE: Gloria Emerson
Gloria Emerson, the prize-winning war reporter and author of Loving Graham Greene, talks to Alex Abramovich about her novel and career.

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