A Death in the Family
/Almost a century ago, the squabbles of one privileged family decimated all of Europe. Steve Donoghue investigates Catrine Clay’s impossibly comprehensive retelling in King, Kaiser, Tsar:
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/Virginia Woolf buried the late John Evelyn with a single review. Now Leah Lambrusco lets us know whether Gillian Darley’s resurrected the diarist in John Evelyn, Living for Ingenuity. (Yes, he’s the other restoration diarist).
Read MoreVermont Casting
/A poem by Ravi Shankar
Read MoreSeptember 2007 Issue
/"Sandcastle" by James A. Crossman
Read MoreThe Long Puzzling Absence of Junot Díaz
/Juno Díaz’ Drown was as impressive a debut as any in the 90s. Eleven years later, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is finally on the shelves. Sam Sacks reviews what the burden of expectation on the author’s shoulders has produced.
Read MoreChicken Little 2.0
/Wikipedia is destroying our culture; so are YouTube, MySpace, and Google; and all your damn blogs, too—or so says Andrew Keen. Greg Waldmann exposes Cult of the Amateur, and the amateur authorship behind the screed.
Read MoreThe Songs, the Singers, and the Sung-To
/Myths and legends reveal the most about the people who re-imagine them. Gardner Linn explores two provocative reshapers in the music-driven graphic novels Stagger Lee and Phonogram: Rue Brittania.
Read MoreJust So Stories
/Should the brain-cracking complexity of modern science be explained in pithy one-liners? Steve Donoghue says no, even as he yields to the charm of Ira Flatow’s Present at the Future.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Our Jolly Round Whirling Earth
/Gun-and-net-toting naturalists seldom produce a better writer than William Beebe. In this regular feature, Steve Donoghue revisits the science writing of a more invasive age.
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