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by Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
Born to two New York Philharmonic violinists, Alan Gilbert will soon pick up its baton. Which is good news, because it may take one of the orchestra's own to launch the revolution it needs.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Tomorrow, I will be starting my 2.5 weeks of reservist duties. So, updates to this website will be very infrequent and minimal. Regular updates will only resume on the 1st of March, when I finally resume my civilian life.
by Brian Stelter, New York Times
The embeds have changed the dynamic of this year's election, making every unplugged and unscripted moment on the campaign trail available for all to see.
by Stuart Dybek, Washington Post
He had love's number.
by Julie Ominger, Washington Post
On the eve of a wedding, her choice was revenge or redemption.
by Julia Alvarez, Washington Post
She found the best cure of all for a broken heart.
by Walter Kim, Washington Post
After such a hard road, it was time for a detour.
by Dean Hebert, Washington Post
Who wants to be a hero, anyway?
by Drake Bennett, Boston Globe
As museums ship ancient treasures back to the countries where they were found, some are now saying: Enough.
by Christina Boufis, San Francisco Chronicle
Some people can hear their inner wisdom in a whisper. Mine broadcasts information about my love life to me through cars.
by Art Winslow, Los Angeles Times
The lethal forces threatening our nation's cultural and political future.
by Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly
Jailed for selling L.A.'s famed "heart attack" dogs, licensed street vendors are fighting back.
by Megan Marshall, Slate
Robert Frost is hardly the first to give editors trouble.
by Terry Teachout, Commentary
As film musicals declined in popularity, they became, predictably enough, a subject of academic study.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
This website is going on hiatus for the rest of Feb. Updates will be minimal and irregular, as I celebrates Chinese New Year, followed by 2.5 weeks of reservist duties in the army. (No, I am not celebrating the latter.)
Regular updates will resume on 1 March 2008. See you then.
by Melissa Whitworth, Telegraph
For an author who has been so matter-of-fact about life's most embarrassing subjects, Judy Blume is surprisingly sentimental. Her mould-breaking novels Deenie, Tiger Eyes, Blubber, Forever and Are You there God? It's Me, Margaret may have taught four decades of schoolgirls what they really needed to know about sex, masturbation, bras and menstruation, but she is anything but no-nonsense in person.
by Richard L. Hasen, Slate
Why the crazy caucus and primary rules are legal.
by Wesley McNair, Slate
by Dennis Overbye, New York Times
In a battle waged with popcorn, floodlights, chalk and star power, science and art squared off at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology one night last month.
by Kathleen Graber, New Yorker
by Alice Munro, New Yorker
by Laura Miller, Salon
Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman — and his salvation — in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel.
by Stacey Chase, Boston Globe
Last year's dramatic rescue of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby proved that missing children - even those gone for years - can be found. But it also serves as a grim reminder that many parents wait years, decades, lifetimes without ever learning the fate of daughters and sons who vanish.
by David Treuer, Los Angeles Times
If the language dies, we will lose something personal, a degree of understanding that resides, for most fluent speakers, on some unconscious level.
by A. O. Scott, New York Times
If it's February, you can be pretty sure that some pretty, plucky actress will be traipsing around some glamrous and photogenic American city (or its Canadian double) in search of hte dimple-chinned fellow who embodies her one true love.
by Rachel Donadio, New York Times
Technology may be speeding up the news cycle, but in publishing, things actually seem to be slowing down.
by John Lanchester, New York Times
Siegel's mission is to make his readers think about the negative effects of the internet — its destructive impact on our culture, on our polity and, perhaps most important, on our sense of ourselves.
by Katie Roiphe, New York Times
One can't say Susan Sontag died a particularly private death. She once declared she wouldn't tell her readers "what it is really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there," but it seems other people were determined to do it for her. The latest glimpse we have of her sickbed is "Swimming in a Sea of Death," David Rieff's intelligent, disordered account of his mother's final illness.
by Maya Jaggi, Guardian
Francisco Goldman's first non-fiction book, set in the aftermath of Guatemala's war, may have influenced the recent elections. It also helped him overcome his own grief.
by Richard Zoglin, Time
Their conflicted roles in the current strike hark back to a less well remembered labor bttle of nearly three decades ago. Letterman and Leno were key figures in one of the strangest and bitterest labor-management disputes in show-business history: the Comedy Store strke of 1979.
by The Economist
Free to mourn or cheer, Indonesians have moved on since Suharto stepped down in 1998.
by Shirley Dent, Guardian
It's not just that so man poets have been startlingly young, it's an art that always requires fresh eyes and ears.
by Eula Biss, The Believer
Fear, racism, and the historically troubling attitude of American pioneers.
by Joyce Wadler, New York Times
Any fool can hire an architect to draw up a plan for a house, but it takes a truly inspired fool — which is to say, an artist — to start building and see where the earth and driftwood and shards of broken pottery take him, and an equally impassioned fool — say, a woman in love — to go along and carry the rocks on her back.
by Joel Stein, Time
Gambling for men isn't about winning money but about boosting our self-esteem by proving that we're always right.
by Paul Young, LA Weekly
At Carlson & Co., they do it with art.
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