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Table of Contents

American Politics
A Nation Divided: or, Ass Cleavage
Pick Your Battles
February 20th, 2005
—Marco Roth
Bobby Seale at BAM
Still Offing the Pig After All These Years
July 10th, 2007
—Nikil Saval
Conventional Warfare, Part One
The Protests
September 20th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Conventional Warfare, Part Two
The Billionaires
September 20th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Creation Nation
66% of Americans believe in Creationism.
July 11th, 2008
—Brian Weinberg
Diary of an American Idiot
Serbian Writer Meets LA Cop
May 7th, 2005
—Jasmina Tesanovic
Emails: What if the Union Crumbles?
What if the Union Crumbles?
October 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen, Christian Lorentzen, Caleb Crain, Kevin Mattson
Evangelical History
On David Hempton's Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
August 10th, 2005
—Jennifer Snead
Farewell, Hitch
On Christopher Hitchens
March 24th, 2005
—George Scialabba
Fear of Frying
A Brief History of Trans Fats
May 21st, 2007
—David Schleifer
How It Was Done
Canvassing for Obama in Philadelphia's 33rd Ward
November 6th, 2008
—Ryan Saylor
I'm With Stupid
Michael Moore
July 21st, 2004
—Marco Roth
Interview with Steve Mumford
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part III
October 1st, 2005
Invisible Cities
New Orleans & Venice
October 1st, 2005
—Nikil Saval
Letter from a Billionaire
Temp
September 20th, 2004
Magical Capitalism
Bruce Robbins vs. WBM
December 13th, 2006
—Walter Benn Michaels
Martha Stewart Could Have Been a Schopenhauer
Temp
April 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Mediocracy in America
Lévy runs dry
February 6th, 2006
—Sam Stark
My Predicament
A Story by Benjamin Kunkel
August 4th, 2006
—Benjamin Kunkel
Obama and the Closing of the American Dream
The Closing of the American Dream
September 2nd, 2008
—Aziz Rana
Oedipus Hipsterus
Semen, Bile, and Todd Solondz
May 7th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
On Assassinations
MLK Jr. Day
January 14th, 2007
—Marco Roth
On Global Warming
The Long Hot Winter
June 13th, 2006
—Chad Harbach
On Richard Rorty
In Memoriam
July 5th, 2007
—Bruce Robbins
Operation Infinite Communication
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part II
September 30th, 2005
—Gregory Warner
Over My Dead Body
McCain can’t lift his arms high enough to be pinned to a cross
September 8th, 2008
—Mark Greif
Passports
An open letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the new Secretary of State
December 3rd, 2008
—Rudolph Delson
Political Memories
Contributors' memories of past elections
November 4th, 2008
—Keith Gessen, Elif Batuman, Alexander Chee, Emily Votruba, Marco Roth, Daniel Albert
Politics: Emails
We Have Nothing to Fear but the Polls
October 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen, Marco Roth
Privacy (in the age of Obama)
A look into how the Obamas have responded to the Bush administration's assault on privacy.
November 14th, 2008
—Eli S. Evans
Red State, Blue State
Flipping Ohio and Indiana
November 19th, 2008
—Andrew Seal
Rome Diary: Keeping the Barbarians In
Rome Diary, Part I
October 31st, 2005
—Marco Roth
Rome Diary: We'll Fight Them on the Boulevards
Marco Roth's Rome Diary, Part II
October 31st, 2005
—Marco Roth
Seattle to Baghdad
On Naomi Klein
May 10th, 2005
—Kim Phillips-Fein
Seized by the Political Spirit
Americans up in each other's business
August 23rd, 2005
—Isaac Scarborough
Shh...Swing Voters Are Listening
Against Two-Party Thinking
April 21st, 2005
—Benjamin Kunkel
Tap Tap Tap
NSA Wiretapping
February 3rd, 2006
—Isaac Scarborough
The End
Why bother dreaming up a devastated world when you live in one?
June 18th, 2008
—Chad Harbach
The Governor Who Loved Poetry Too Much
Temp
August 21st, 2004
—Wesley Yang
The Politics of Fear, Part I: Whatever Happened to the War on Terror?
Whatever happened to the war on terror?
October 30th, 2007
—Alex Gourevitch
The Politics of Fear, Part II: How Many Of Us?
How Many of Us?
March 18th, 2008
—Benjamin Kunkel
The Politics of Fear, Part III: Business As Usual
Business As Usual
March 20th, 2008
—Chad Harbach
The Politics of Fear, Part IV: The Return of Al Gore
The Return of Al Gore
March 21st, 2008
—Mark Greif
The State of Painting
Art Week, Part IV
June 17th, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
Toward an Index of the 9/11 Comission Report
temp
August 23rd, 2004
—Christian Lorentzen, Keith Gessen
Two Letters on the Democratic Primaries
Mothers, Sons, and Obamamania
February 4th, 2008
—Daniel Smith
W: Our President
Temp
April 20th, 2004
Who's to Blame?
The Republicans
November 23rd, 2004
—Benjamin Kunkel
Why Don't Republicans Write Fiction?
Benjamin Nugent has found just one
March 6th, 2007
—Benjamin Nugent
Woman, the New Social Problem
On Down, Flanagan, Hirschman, Kipnis
May 14th, 2007
—Meghan Falvey
Angry Letters
Atlantic Yards Letters, Part I
On the "Atlantic Yards" Project
November 16th, 2006
—Jacob Shell, Jon Bonanno
Letter from a Billionaire
Temp
September 20th, 2004
Magical Capitalism
Bruce Robbins vs. WBM
December 13th, 2006
—Walter Benn Michaels
Politics: Emails
We Have Nothing to Fear but the Polls
October 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen, Marco Roth
Two Letters on the Democratic Primaries
Mothers, Sons, and Obamamania
February 4th, 2008
—Daniel Smith
Art and Architecture
30 Artists in 30 Words
Art Week, Part I
June 14th, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich, Andy Fitch
A Sporting Chance
On the "Atlantic Yards" Project
November 2nd, 2006
—Jonathan Liu
Andrew Jackson, the New Face of Modern Art
The New MoMA
March 3rd, 2005
—Daniel Smith
Apologia's Halfway House: On the Robert Moses Exhibits
The Robert Moses Exhibits
April 2nd, 2007
—Jacob Shell
Art Chronicle: April, May, June
Whitney Biennial, Jasper Johns, open studios, and more
June 16th, 2008
—Dushko Petrovich, Roger White
Art Chronicle: Graphic Novels
Spiegelman, Sacco, Tezuka, Satrapi, Ware
July 31st, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
Art Chronicle; Or, the Icon Emerging
El Greco and Philip Guston; Elizabeth Peyton and David Hockney
July 31st, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
Asymmetry from the Hot Symmetrical Plasma
Ed Ruscha Symposium, Part IV
December 10th, 2005
—Jesse Dillon
Catching Up with Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha Symposium, Part I
December 1st, 2005
—Alexandra Schwartz
Death's Sky Blue Bag
Marvin Gates Symposium, Part I
July 10th, 2006
—Dushko Petrovich
Et in Manhattan Ego
Marvin Gates Symposium, Part III
July 12th, 2006
—Chandra Speeth
Eulogy in Esperanto
Marvin Gates Symposium, Part II
July 11th, 2006
—Roger White
Fashion Week 2008
n+1 reports Fashion Week from the cheap seats
September 22nd, 2008
—Molly Young
Gunpowder Empire
Ed Ruscha Symposium, Part III
December 7th, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
Interview with Steve Mumford
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part III
October 1st, 2005
Keep Your Eyes on the War
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part I
September 29th, 2005
—Andy Fitch, Dushko Petrovich
Leaving the Rothko Chapel
Ab-Ex Apostasy in Houston
August 3rd, 2005
—Jim Cocola
Looking Good and Meaning Well
Art Week, Part III
June 16th, 2005
—Roger White
Operation Infinite Communication
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part II
September 30th, 2005
—Gregory Warner
Our Man in Venice
Ed Ruscha Symposium, Part II
December 3rd, 2005
—Jasper Sharp
Red Carpet Treatment
Marvin Gates Symposium, Part IV
July 13th, 2006
—Jesse Dillon
Same Old, Same Old
Ed Ruscha Symposium, Part V
December 13th, 2005
—Roger White
Take This Job & Shove It
Art Week, Part II
June 15th, 2005
—Oscar Tuazon
The State of Painting
Art Week, Part IV
June 17th, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
The Trouble with Heroes
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part IV
October 2nd, 2005
—Victoria Solan
Toil and Trouble
Art Week, Part V
June 18th, 2006
—Lan Tuazon
Book Reviews
Adventures of a Man of Science
Moretti in California
January 6th, 2006
—Elif Batuman
Arguing About War
Michael Walzer, Rousseau, and Rwanda
May 13th, 2005
—Isaac Scarborough
Art Chronicle: Graphic Novels
Spiegelman, Sacco, Tezuka, Satrapi, Ware
July 31st, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
Boiling & Pouring: On Absurdistan
On Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan
August 22nd, 2006
—Gary Sernovitz
Burying the Hatchet Man
Dale Peck
April 20th, 2004
—Marco Roth
David Foster Wallace!
Oblivion, Infinite Jest
December 20th, 2005
—Chad Harbach
Dispatches from the Jewish Imagination
Chabon and Englander
August 16th, 2007
—Gary Sernovitz
Ecosophy from T to X
Arne Naess & the blueberry problem
April 16th, 2006
—Jim Cocola
Evangelical History
On David Hempton's Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
August 10th, 2005
—Jennifer Snead
Fantasy Remade: China Miéville's New Crobuzon Novels
China Miéville's New Crobuzon Novels
March 6th, 2006
—Henry Farrell
Farewell, Hitch
On Christopher Hitchens
March 24th, 2005
—George Scialabba
Friend's
Kevin Kopelson reviews James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning
July 11th, 2008
—Kevin Kopelson
How Low Can You Go?
James Frey picks up the pieces
August 19th, 2005
—Evan Hughes
How Sassy (Should Have) Changed My Life
Working Our Nerves
July 3rd, 2007
—Carlene Bauer
I'll Not Go On
The End of Javier Marías
May 21st, 2005
—Eli S. Evans
Letter from England: A Blairite Novel
Jonathan Coe's The Closed Circle
November 23rd, 2004
—Jerome de Groot
Love and Boredom
Cathleen Schine's Complicated Chick-Lit
April 30th, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz
Mediocracy in America
Lévy runs dry
February 6th, 2006
—Sam Stark
No Country for Old Dudes: On Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's pessimistic nihilism
July 19th, 2005
—Ben Rutter
On Magic Feelism
Kevin Brockmeier's sad-happy fiction
March 27th, 2008
—Christian Lorentzen
Orhan Pamuk and the Turks
Reading The Black Book in Istanbul
March 26th, 2007
—Gloria Fisk
Research Branch Communique #2
The French Sex Novel
January 6th, 2005
—Marco Roth
Seattle to Baghdad
On Naomi Klein
May 10th, 2005
—Kim Phillips-Fein
Show a Man What He Eats
On Vegetarianism
February 14th, 2007
—Nikil Saval
The End
Why bother dreaming up a devastated world when you live in one?
June 18th, 2008
—Chad Harbach
The Romance of the Library
A Review of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
September 20th, 2004
—Jenny Davidson
Three Books by Lisa Robertson
Lucy Ives admires the Canadian poet
January 3rd, 2007
—Lucy Ives
Weakonomics
Levitt slinging soft old U-Chicago stuff
June 22nd, 2005
—Meghan Falvey
Woman, the New Social Problem
On Down, Flanagan, Hirschman, Kipnis
May 14th, 2007
—Meghan Falvey
“What Have We Who Are Slaves And Black To Do With Art?”
Ellison and Borges
February 12th, 2008
—Thomas Chatterton Williams
Cars, Food, and Sociology
Fear of Frying
A Brief History of Trans Fats
May 21st, 2007
—David Schleifer
From a Buick 8
Monster Trucks or Birth Control
January 6th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Motor Cars & the End of Days
On Global Warming
April 11th, 2006
—Daniel Albert
Pimpin' Gets Cheesy
Pimp My Ride forsakes its heritage
July 31st, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Take It to the Street
Class Clash on Seventh Avenue
August 19th, 2008
—Daniel Albert
Tata Nano: The People’s Prius
n+1 auto critic Daniel Albert makes a modest green proposal
June 6th, 2008
—Daniel Albert
The DMV
Fiction by Toby Barlow
July 7th, 2005
—Toby Barlow
The People's Republic of Cars
Motoring for the masses
November 24th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Top Chef's Dissembled Feast
Brandon Proia on food unreality
February 17th, 2007
—Brandon Proia
Weakonomics
Levitt slinging soft old U-Chicago stuff
June 22nd, 2005
—Meghan Falvey
Woman, the New Social Problem
On Down, Flanagan, Hirschman, Kipnis
May 14th, 2007
—Meghan Falvey
Ecology
Ecosophy from T to X
Arne Naess & the blueberry problem
April 16th, 2006
—Jim Cocola
Eulogies for Winter: Thoughts on the Old Man's Passing
Thoughts on the old man's passing
January 9th, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz, Anthony Graves, Allison Lorentzen, Nikil Saval, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Medi Blum, Keith Gessen, Chad Harbach, Marco Roth, Emily Votruba, Wesley Yang
From a Buick 8
Monster Trucks or Birth Control
January 6th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Invisible Cities
New Orleans & Venice
October 1st, 2005
—Nikil Saval
Motor Cars & the End of Days
On Global Warming
April 11th, 2006
—Daniel Albert
On Global Warming
The Long Hot Winter
June 13th, 2006
—Chad Harbach
Show a Man What He Eats
On Vegetarianism
February 14th, 2007
—Nikil Saval
The End
Why bother dreaming up a devastated world when you live in one?
June 18th, 2008
—Chad Harbach
The Knut and Tom Show
Knut-mania and the shifting relationship between man and nature.
December 18th, 2008
—Moira G. Weigel
The Politics of Fear, Part I: Whatever Happened to the War on Terror?
Whatever happened to the war on terror?
October 30th, 2007
—Alex Gourevitch
The Politics of Fear, Part II: How Many Of Us?
How Many of Us?
March 18th, 2008
—Benjamin Kunkel
The Politics of Fear, Part III: Business As Usual
Business As Usual
March 20th, 2008
—Chad Harbach
The Politics of Fear, Part IV: The Return of Al Gore
The Return of Al Gore
March 21st, 2008
—Mark Greif
Fiction
All the Sad Young Literary Men: Prologue
The prologue to Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men.
April 10th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
Chicago Cryptogram
A Story by Robert Coover
February 3rd, 2005
—Robert Coover
DFW 1962 - 2008
1962–2008
September 16th, 2008
—Benjamin Kunkel
Failure
Fiction by Benjamin Kunkel
July 21st, 2004
—Benjamin Kunkel
Ghost Story
Fiction by Joshua Malbin
March 24th, 2005
—Joshua Malbin
Loving Mydelletyra
Fiction by Toby Barlow
January 17th, 2006
—Toby Barlow
My Predicament
A Story by Benjamin Kunkel
August 4th, 2006
—Benjamin Kunkel
On Magic Feelism
Kevin Brockmeier's sad-happy fiction
March 27th, 2008
—Christian Lorentzen
The DMV
Fiction by Toby Barlow
July 7th, 2005
—Toby Barlow
The Fantasies of Others
A short story by Arnon Grunberg.
October 2nd, 2008
—Arnon Grunberg
The New Novel
Why did I ever bring it up?
July 16th, 2007
—Damion Searls, Robert Walser
Wallace, Teacher
A remembrance of David Foster Wallace, the teacher
September 19th, 2008
—Jared Roscoe
Year In Review
"Did I understand you correctly?"
December 29th, 2007
—Ilya Bernstein
Film
Captain Neato
Wes Anderson and Hipsters
January 6th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
Dig?
A Review of DIG!
November 23rd, 2004
—John Colpitts
Excremental Education
Miranda July
June 27th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
I'm With Stupid
Michael Moore
July 21st, 2004
—Marco Roth
Nothing Happens to No One
Gus Van Sant
July 10th, 2006
—Holly Myers
Oedipus Hipsterus
Semen, Bile, and Todd Solondz
May 7th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
On Michelangelo Antonioni
1912–2007
August 8th, 2007
—Nikil Saval
Oscar Preview
"It's physically painful for me to feel that good."
February 23rd, 2008
—A. S. Hamrah
Review: Elegy
The rude mammalian fucking of Roth's The Dying Animal becomes lovemaking in Elegy.
August 15th, 2008
—Molly Young, Molly Young
Say Something in Chinese: Film Column 3
Moviegoing in California
September 26th, 2008
—A. S. Hamrah
Scary Creature Action: Film Column 1
A.S. Hamrah reviews recent films, deals with a lack of health insurance, and doesn't sit next to David Denby
April 7th, 2008
—A. S. Hamrah
Take My Balls—Please
Woody Allen
March 20th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
The Dark Knight
Its chaos is expensively calculated, and not at all benign.
August 6th, 2008
—Nikil Saval
The Human Pyramid Thing: Film Column 2
A. S. Hamrah compares Harold and Kumar to Lynndie England, dreams of a shattered Netflix disc, and realizes his neighborhood is the new Toronto
May 7th, 2008
—A. S. Hamrah
The Thinking Man's Guide to The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Zizek as you've never seen him before
November 9th, 2007
—Jim Cocola
To Wed and To Fail
Noah Baumbach
October 31st, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
Worst Movie of 2007
Todd Haynes' I'm Not There
January 14th, 2008
—Nikil Saval
Foreign Affairs
A Childhood of Laughter and Forgetting
UNICEF and Czech Communism
April 16th, 2007
—Jana Prikryl
A Nation Divided: or, Ass Cleavage
Pick Your Battles
February 20th, 2005
—Marco Roth
Another Ten Years
Dispatch from Cape Town
October 9th, 2006
—Gemma Sieff
Arguing About War
Michael Walzer, Rousseau, and Rwanda
May 13th, 2005
—Isaac Scarborough
Contract Sports
On the French Protests
April 11th, 2006
—Jules Treneer
Defending Dictatorship: Another View on Pakistan
Another View on Pakistan
March 24th, 2008
—S. Abbas Raza
Denmark Bedeviled
The Destruction of Ungdomshuset
March 17th, 2007
Did Somebody Say "Tribal Clashes"?
Tying the knot in Kenya
January 10th, 2008
—Tavia Nyong'o
Everybody Loves Keiko, Part II
Why does the firstborn daughter of a former dictator smile so much?
March 5th, 2008
—Paola Dongo
Freispiel, Berlin
Dispatch from our pinball correspodent
October 17th, 2007
—Justin E. H. Smith
How Bombay Became Mumbai
Watching the news
December 2nd, 2008
—Nikil Saval
Interview with Steve Mumford
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part III
October 1st, 2005
Invisible Cities
New Orleans & Venice
October 1st, 2005
—Nikil Saval
Keep Your Eyes on the War
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part I
September 29th, 2005
—Andy Fitch, Dushko Petrovich
La Hija Obediente [De Un Padre Autoritario]
¿Por qué sonríe tanto Keiko Sofía, la primogénita de Alberto Fujimori?
March 1st, 2008
—Paola Dongo
Letter from England: A Blairite Novel
Jonathan Coe's The Closed Circle
November 23rd, 2004
—Jerome de Groot
My Turkishness in Revolt: On Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink, 1954-2007
February 5th, 2007
—Taner Akçam
Olympic Diary
Temp
October 9th, 2004
—Sam Frank
On Francisco Umbral
Eros meets Thanatos in Spain
September 10th, 2007
—Eli S. Evans
On Naguib Mahfouz
1917-2006
September 8th, 2006
—Robyn Creswell
On Tibet
Free Tibet: On the march with Tenzin Tsundue
June 6th, 2008
—Jesse Lichtenstein
Operation Infinite Communication
Symposium on Steve Mumford, Part II
September 30th, 2005
—Gregory Warner
Orhan Pamuk and the Turks
Reading The Black Book in Istanbul
March 26th, 2007
—Gloria Fisk
Palestine, the 51st State
A Modest Proposal
April 20th, 2004
—Mark Greif
Paranoiastan
In the shadow of government sponsored terrorism
August 4th, 2004
—Masha Gessen
Rome Diary: We'll Fight Them on the Boulevards
Marco Roth's Rome Diary, Part II
October 31st, 2005
—Marco Roth
Sche ne Vmerla Ukraina
Notes from the Orange Revolution
January 6th, 2005
—Megan Buskey
The Back Room President: On Pakistan
War on terror as corporate policy
February 18th, 2008
—Jules Treneer
The People's Republic of Cars
Motoring for the masses
November 24th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
The Politics of Fear, Part I: Whatever Happened to the War on Terror?
Whatever happened to the war on terror?
October 30th, 2007
—Alex Gourevitch
Unstable Elements
On the French Protests
April 24th, 2006
—Laurence Lowe
Victory Day in Kyiv
Dispatch from Ukraine
May 21st, 2005
—Megan Buskey
What Would Allende Say?
Allende may have won the symbolic battle for Chile, but Pinochet won the war.
July 27th, 2008
—Luke Epplin
In Memoriam
DFW 1962 - 2008
1962–2008
September 16th, 2008
—Benjamin Kunkel
Derrida: An Autothanatography
A Memoir
October 15th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Guy Davenport
"Let the Song Lie in the Thing"
January 6th, 2005
—Sam Frank
My Turkishness in Revolt: On Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink, 1954-2007
February 5th, 2007
—Taner Akçam
On Assassinations
MLK Jr. Day
January 14th, 2007
—Marco Roth
On Barbara Epstein
1928-2006
June 27th, 2006
—Keith Gessen, Lorin Stein, Benjamin Kunkel
On Ellen Willis
1941-2006
November 22nd, 2006
—Kate Bolick
On Francisco Umbral
Eros meets Thanatos in Spain
September 10th, 2007
—Eli S. Evans
On Michelangelo Antonioni
1912–2007
August 8th, 2007
—Nikil Saval
On Naguib Mahfouz
1917-2006
September 8th, 2006
—Robyn Creswell
On Patrick Giles
1957-2005
October 31st, 2005
—Keith Gessen
On Richard Rorty
In Memoriam
July 5th, 2007
—Bruce Robbins
On Susan Sontag
In Memoriam
January 6th, 2005
—Benjamin Kunkel
The Face of Seung-Hui Cho
"It's not an ugly face, exactly; it's not a badly made face."
January 16th, 2008
—Wesley Yang
Uncorrupted: On Gilbert Sorrentino
1927-2006
June 5th, 2006
Wallace, Teacher
A remembrance of David Foster Wallace, the teacher
September 19th, 2008
—Jared Roscoe
Love and Sex
A Nation Divided: or, Ass Cleavage
Pick Your Battles
February 20th, 2005
—Marco Roth
Clocking Out
Sex, time, and rock and roll
September 24th, 2007
—J. D. Daniels
Dating
An Anti-Education
November 25th, 2005
Excremental Education
Miranda July
June 27th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
Fashion Supplement: The Tattoo
Fashion Supplement Part Three
September 20th, 2004
—Mark Greif
Ghost Story
Fiction by Joshua Malbin
March 24th, 2005
—Joshua Malbin
Is Anal Sex Fair to Women?
A Rigorous Appendix to Toni Bentley's The Surrender
November 23rd, 2004
—Emily Votruba
Je M'accuse
Internet Confessionals
April 7th, 2005
—Fiona Maazel
Love and Boredom
Cathleen Schine's Complicated Chick-Lit
April 30th, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz
Loving Mydelletyra
Fiction by Toby Barlow
January 17th, 2006
—Toby Barlow
On Francisco Umbral
Eros meets Thanatos in Spain
September 10th, 2007
—Eli S. Evans
Or Are You Happy to See Me?
Correspondent Endures Lap Dance
April 21st, 2005
—Evan Hughes
Replaceable You
Sex Addiction
May 7th, 2006
—Lydia Perovic
Research Branch Communique #2
The French Sex Novel
January 6th, 2005
—Marco Roth
Review: Elegy
The rude mammalian fucking of Roth's The Dying Animal becomes lovemaking in Elegy.
August 15th, 2008
—Molly Young, Molly Young
Take My Balls—Please
Woody Allen
March 20th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
The DMV
Fiction by Toby Barlow
July 7th, 2005
—Toby Barlow
The Face of Seung-Hui Cho
"It's not an ugly face, exactly; it's not a badly made face."
January 16th, 2008
—Wesley Yang
The Governor Who Loved Poetry Too Much
Temp
August 21st, 2004
—Wesley Yang
The Porn Machine
From Issue Five, The Intellectual Situation
March 12th, 2007
To Wed and To Fail
Noah Baumbach
October 31st, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
Woman, the New Social Problem
On Down, Flanagan, Hirschman, Kipnis
May 14th, 2007
—Meghan Falvey
Money
All the Sad Young Literary Men: Prologue
The prologue to Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men.
April 10th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
Andrew Jackson, the New Face of Modern Art
The New MoMA
March 3rd, 2005
—Daniel Smith
Contract Sports
On the French Protests
April 11th, 2006
—Jules Treneer
Conventional Warfare, Part Two
The Billionaires
September 20th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Conversation with a Bookseller, Part One
Part One
September 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Conversation with a Bookseller, Part Two
Part II, The Shocking Conclusion
September 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Dispatch from Jones Beach
Still more on Robert Moses' legacy
July 31st, 2007
—Rachel Somerstein
First, Do No Harm
Life and death in the ICU
October 5th, 2006
—Andrew Ellner
Gambling Supplement
Dostoevsky in Hamburg
October 9th, 2004
—Keith Gessen, Ilya Bernstein
Interview With a Hedge Fund Manager
The Financial Situation
January 7th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
Letter from a Billionaire
Temp
September 20th, 2004
Magical Capitalism
Bruce Robbins vs. WBM
December 13th, 2006
—Walter Benn Michaels
Martha Stewart Could Have Been a Schopenhauer
Temp
April 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Money
Keith Gessen lives on $12,000, checks the BookScan numbers, and finds himself in an O. Henry story
May 19th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
NHL Update: Freedom and Real Estate
Edmonton wreaks its revenge
October 1st, 2007
—Steven Ovadia
The Blue Mist
The Rapture and Kentucky Baseball
April 23rd, 2007
—Brian Weinberg
The People's Republic of Cars
Motoring for the masses
November 24th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Weakonomics
Levitt slinging soft old U-Chicago stuff
June 22nd, 2005
—Meghan Falvey
Woman, the New Social Problem
On Down, Flanagan, Hirschman, Kipnis
May 14th, 2007
—Meghan Falvey
Music and TV
Benjamin in Extremis
Ferneyhough and Bernstein's Philosophical Opera
September 6th, 2005
—Nikil Saval
Clocking Out
Sex, time, and rock and roll
September 24th, 2007
—J. D. Daniels
Dig?
A Review of DIG!
November 23rd, 2004
—John Colpitts
I'm From I'm from Rolling Stone
Fear, loathing, and MTV
April 9th, 2007
—Michelle Chihara
It Goes to Eleven
How Nirvana Sounds Now
April 5th, 2005
—Justin Taylor
One Night in Azeroth
Hiding in World of Warcraft
October 5th, 2006
—Grady Hendrix
Pimpin' Gets Cheesy
Pimp My Ride forsakes its heritage
July 31st, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Radiohead, or The Philosophy of Pop
On the Philosophy of Pop
January 19th, 2006
—Mark Greif
The Hype Cycle
Don't Believe It!
April 28th, 2008
The Reality of Reality Television
What to do when they come for you
June 13th, 2006
—Mark Greif
The Television Diaries, Part II: Split Sides
The Television Diaries, Part II
March 31st, 2007
—Eli S. Evans
Top Chef's Dissembled Feast
Brandon Proia on food unreality
February 17th, 2007
—Brandon Proia
My Life and Times
A Childhood of Laughter and Forgetting
UNICEF and Czech Communism
April 16th, 2007
—Jana Prikryl
A Violent Season: Dispatch from the Women's New York Daily News Golden Gloves
Women's Golden Glove Boxing
June 1st, 2005
—Emily Votruba
Adventures of a Man of Science
Moretti in California
January 6th, 2006
—Elif Batuman
Another Ten Years
Dispatch from Cape Town
October 9th, 2006
—Gemma Sieff
Arigato, Kobashi
Marks, smarts, and Barthes
November 24th, 2005
—Alex Carnevale
BANG!
A Memoir of Firearms
February 10th, 2005
—J. D. Daniels
Badiou: Badass
Outside the prison-house of language
June 21st, 2006
—Alexandra Heifetz
Captain Neato
Wes Anderson and Hipsters
January 6th, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
Derrida: An Autothanatography
A Memoir
October 15th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Diary of an American Idiot
Serbian Writer Meets LA Cop
May 7th, 2005
—Jasmina Tesanovic
First, Do No Harm
Life and death in the ICU
October 5th, 2006
—Andrew Ellner
Freispiel, Berlin
Dispatch from our pinball correspodent
October 17th, 2007
—Justin E. H. Smith
How Sassy (Should Have) Changed My Life
Working Our Nerves
July 3rd, 2007
—Carlene Bauer
I'm From I'm from Rolling Stone
Fear, loathing, and MTV
April 9th, 2007
—Michelle Chihara
Kung-Fu With a Monkey
"I had punched a monkey."
January 30th, 2008
—Daniel Alarcón
Leaving the Rothko Chapel
Ab-Ex Apostasy in Houston
August 3rd, 2005
—Jim Cocola
Martha Stewart Could Have Been a Schopenhauer
Temp
April 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
My Life and Times in American Publishing
New York at the Dawn of Friendster
July 20th, 2006
—Carla Blumenkranz
Olympic Diary
Temp
October 9th, 2004
—Sam Frank
Replaceable You
Sex Addiction
May 7th, 2006
—Lydia Perovic
Rome Diary: Keeping the Barbarians In
Rome Diary, Part I
October 31st, 2005
—Marco Roth
Rome Diary: We'll Fight Them on the Boulevards
Marco Roth's Rome Diary, Part II
October 31st, 2005
—Marco Roth
Same Old, Same Old
Ed Ruscha Symposium, Part V
December 13th, 2005
—Roger White
The Face of Seung-Hui Cho
"It's not an ugly face, exactly; it's not a badly made face."
January 16th, 2008
—Wesley Yang
Why I Think About Meditating
Do I want to entertain myself or do I want to improve myself? 
November 26th, 2007
—John Haskell
New York
30 Artists in 30 Words
Art Week, Part I
June 14th, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich, Andy Fitch
A Sporting Chance
On the "Atlantic Yards" Project
November 2nd, 2006
—Jonathan Liu
A Violent Season: Dispatch from the Women's New York Daily News Golden Gloves
Women's Golden Glove Boxing
June 1st, 2005
—Emily Votruba
All the Sad Young Literary Men: Prologue
The prologue to Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men.
April 10th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
Andrew Jackson, the New Face of Modern Art
The New MoMA
March 3rd, 2005
—Daniel Smith
Apologia's Halfway House: On the Robert Moses Exhibits
The Robert Moses Exhibits
April 2nd, 2007
—Jacob Shell
Arigato, Kobashi
Marks, smarts, and Barthes
November 24th, 2005
—Alex Carnevale
Art Chronicle: April, May, June
Whitney Biennial, Jasper Johns, open studios, and more
June 16th, 2008
—Dushko Petrovich, Roger White
Art Chronicle; Or, the Icon Emerging
El Greco and Philip Guston; Elizabeth Peyton and David Hockney
July 31st, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
Atlantic Yards Letters, Part I
On the "Atlantic Yards" Project
November 16th, 2006
—Jacob Shell, Jon Bonanno
Building Miss Brooklyn
On the "Atlantic Yards" Project
October 25th, 2006
—Nikil Saval
Conversation with a Bookseller, Part One
Part One
September 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Conversation with a Bookseller, Part Two
Part II, The Shocking Conclusion
September 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Crashing Through the Windows
Holday Shopping! In Midtown!
December 15th, 2008
—A. S. Hamrah, Erika Kawalek
Dating
An Anti-Education
November 25th, 2005
Dispatch from Jones Beach
Still more on Robert Moses' legacy
July 31st, 2007
—Rachel Somerstein
Eulogies for Winter: Thoughts on the Old Man's Passing
Thoughts on the old man's passing
January 9th, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz, Anthony Graves, Allison Lorentzen, Nikil Saval, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Medi Blum, Keith Gessen, Chad Harbach, Marco Roth, Emily Votruba, Wesley Yang
Failure
Fiction by Benjamin Kunkel
July 21st, 2004
—Benjamin Kunkel
Gawker: 2002–2007
Pageviews to the people
December 3rd, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz
How Sassy (Should Have) Changed My Life
Working Our Nerves
July 3rd, 2007
—Carlene Bauer
Looking Good and Meaning Well
Art Week, Part III
June 16th, 2005
—Roger White
Love and Boredom
Cathleen Schine's Complicated Chick-Lit
April 30th, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz
Martha Stewart Could Have Been a Schopenhauer
Temp
April 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Money
Keith Gessen lives on $12,000, checks the BookScan numbers, and finds himself in an O. Henry story
May 19th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
My Life and Times in American Publishing
New York at the Dawn of Friendster
July 20th, 2006
—Carla Blumenkranz
Take It to the Street
Class Clash on Seventh Avenue
August 19th, 2008
—Daniel Albert
Take This Job & Shove It
Art Week, Part II
June 15th, 2005
—Oscar Tuazon
The Human Pyramid Thing: Film Column 2
A. S. Hamrah compares Harold and Kumar to Lynndie England, dreams of a shattered Netflix disc, and realizes his neighborhood is the new Toronto
May 7th, 2008
—A. S. Hamrah
The State of Painting
Art Week, Part IV
June 17th, 2005
—Dushko Petrovich
To Wed and To Fail
Noah Baumbach
October 31st, 2005
—Christian Lorentzen
Toil and Trouble
Art Week, Part V
June 18th, 2006
—Lan Tuazon
Reading, Writing and Publishing
A Regressive Avant-Garde
McSweeney's / Believer
July 1st, 2004
Burying the Hatchet Man
Dale Peck
April 20th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Cancel Them
Literary Readings
May 17th, 2005
Conversation with a Bookseller, Part One
Part One
September 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Conversation with a Bookseller, Part Two
Part II, The Shocking Conclusion
September 20th, 2004
—Keith Gessen
Designated Haters
The New Republic
July 21st, 2004
Dispatch from Los Angeles: Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
March 12th, 2008
—Eli S. Evans
Dispatches from the Jewish Imagination
Chabon and Englander
August 16th, 2007
—Gary Sernovitz
Farewell, Hitch
On Christopher Hitchens
March 24th, 2005
—George Scialabba
Fun Photo Party Blog Photo Orgy Blog
Fun, photos, parties, orgies, blogs.
July 5th, 2006
Gambling Supplement
Dostoevsky in Hamburg
October 9th, 2004
—Keith Gessen, Ilya Bernstein
Gawker: 2002–2007
Pageviews to the people
December 3rd, 2007
—Carla Blumenkranz
How Sassy (Should Have) Changed My Life
Working Our Nerves
July 3rd, 2007
—Carlene Bauer
I'll Not Go On
The End of Javier Marías
May 21st, 2005
—Eli S. Evans
Money
Keith Gessen lives on $12,000, checks the BookScan numbers, and finds himself in an O. Henry story
May 19th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
My Life and Times in American Publishing
New York at the Dawn of Friendster
July 20th, 2006
—Carla Blumenkranz
On Barbara Epstein
1928-2006
June 27th, 2006
—Keith Gessen, Lorin Stein, Benjamin Kunkel
On Ellen Willis
1941-2006
November 22nd, 2006
—Kate Bolick
On Francisco Umbral
Eros meets Thanatos in Spain
September 10th, 2007
—Eli S. Evans
On Magic Feelism
Kevin Brockmeier's sad-happy fiction
March 27th, 2008
—Christian Lorentzen
On Not Being Invited to Speak at Panel Discussions
A mind-bending journey into the sordid world of panel discussions.
December 30th, 2008
—John Barry
On Patrick Giles
1957-2005
October 31st, 2005
—Keith Gessen
On Susan Sontag
In Memoriam
January 6th, 2005
—Benjamin Kunkel
Revenge of the Regressive Avant-Garde
Michael Chabon
May 7th, 2005
—Marco Roth
The Governor Who Loved Poetry Too Much
Temp
August 21st, 2004
—Wesley Yang
The Hype Cycle
Don't Believe It!
April 28th, 2008
The Reading Crisis
Does literature need saving?
December 19th, 2005
The Way Out Is In
Interiority & the Novel
May 26th, 2005
Uncorrupted: On Gilbert Sorrentino
1927-2006
June 5th, 2006
Why Don't Republicans Write Fiction?
Benjamin Nugent has found just one
March 6th, 2007
—Benjamin Nugent
Wrong-Thinking, Ill-Feeling
An examination of the Colombian magazine, El Malpensante
November 24th, 2008
—David Noriega
“What Have We Who Are Slaves And Black To Do With Art?”
Ellison and Borges
February 12th, 2008
—Thomas Chatterton Williams
Science and Technology
Creation Nation
66% of Americans believe in Creationism.
July 11th, 2008
—Brian Weinberg
Fear of Frying
A Brief History of Trans Fats
May 21st, 2007
—David Schleifer
First, Do No Harm
Life and death in the ICU
October 5th, 2006
—Andrew Ellner
From a Buick 8
Monster Trucks or Birth Control
January 6th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Je M'accuse
Internet Confessionals
April 7th, 2005
—Fiona Maazel
Kickstart My Heart
Adderall Days
January 23rd, 2008
—Molly Young, Molly Young
Motor Cars & the End of Days
On Global Warming
April 11th, 2006
—Daniel Albert
Specific Motors
Dan Albert examines how the automobile industry found itself in the middle of a crisis.
December 11th, 2008
—Daniel Albert
The People's Republic of Cars
Motoring for the masses
November 24th, 2005
—Daniel Albert
Whatever Minutes
"I'm in the Louvre!"
June 11th, 2007
Sports
A Sporting Chance
On the "Atlantic Yards" Project
November 2nd, 2006
—Jonathan Liu
A Violent Season: Dispatch from the Women's New York Daily News Golden Gloves
Women's Golden Glove Boxing
June 1st, 2005
—Emily Votruba
Arigato, Kobashi
Marks, smarts, and Barthes
November 24th, 2005
—Alex Carnevale
Freispiel, Berlin
Dispatch from our pinball correspodent
October 17th, 2007
—Justin E. H. Smith
Human, Not Too Human
The NBA
July 21st, 2004
Kung-Fu With a Monkey
"I had punched a monkey."
January 30th, 2008
—Daniel Alarcón
NHL Update, Part 2
Game-time!
October 5th, 2007
—Steven Ovadia, Keith Gessen
NHL Update: Freedom and Real Estate
Edmonton wreaks its revenge
October 1st, 2007
—Steven Ovadia
Olympic Diary
Temp
October 9th, 2004
—Sam Frank
Should the Sox Throw the World Series?
Chad Harbach writes from Wisconsin
January 6th, 2005
—Chad Harbach
The Blue Mist
The Rapture and Kentucky Baseball
April 23rd, 2007
—Brian Weinberg
The Academy
Adventures of a Man of Science
Moretti in California
January 6th, 2006
—Elif Batuman
Badiou: Badass
Outside the prison-house of language
June 21st, 2006
—Alexandra Heifetz
Death Is Not the End
Literary Theory
March 24th, 2005
Derrida: An Autothanatography
A Memoir
October 15th, 2004
—Marco Roth
Kickstart My Heart
Adderall Days
January 23rd, 2008
—Molly Young, Molly Young
Magical Capitalism
Bruce Robbins vs. WBM
December 13th, 2006
—Walter Benn Michaels
Money
Keith Gessen lives on $12,000, checks the BookScan numbers, and finds himself in an O. Henry story
May 19th, 2008
—Keith Gessen
Orhan Pamuk and the Turks
Reading The Black Book in Istanbul
March 26th, 2007
—Gloria Fisk
Rome Diary: Keeping the Barbarians In
Rome Diary, Part I
October 31st, 2005
—Marco Roth
The Intellectual Situation
A Regressive Avant-Garde
McSweeney's / Believer
July 1st, 2004
Against Email
We are all spammers now
August 16th, 2007
Cancel Them
Literary Readings
May 17th, 2005
Dating
An Anti-Education
November 25th, 2005
Death Is Not the End
Literary Theory
March 24th, 2005
Designated Haters
The New Republic
July 21st, 2004