Short Schrift

Greetings, longtime readers of Short Schrift. I hope that all of you have been following my shenanigans over at Snarkmarket , which consumes...

Svante Pääbo, " Mapping the Neanderthal Genome ": One thing that we're beginning to see is that we are extremely closely relat...

New Liberal Arts , a Snarkmarket / Revelator collaboration, is available for sale today. It's 80pp and costs $8.95. Robin reports that ...

For Andrew Sullivan, AIDS explains why 1990 was the year American attitudes towards gays changed: Remember: most of these deaths were o...

Chris Bray : In the first volume of his biography of Andrew Jackson, Robert Remini neatly captures the strangeness of state sovereignty. I...

Miriam Burstein : Many years ago, I heard a sociologist tell an anecdote about being the only undergraduate at a faculty party.  After a sho...

Pitchfork : Think about how crazy this is for a moment: Stax loses Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays to a plane crash and the rights to their ...

Josh Marshall : I think it's because so much of Michael Jackson's life seemed like make believe. Sometimes farcical. But always like...

Andrea Walker, "Chicago, Where Fun Comes to Die" : The U. of C. is known for serious thinking combined with a sarcastic, self-depr...

Andrew O'Hehir interviews Grady Hendrix at the New York Asian Film Festival : "You have acquisitions people picking up movies that ...