Short Schrift

At a certain point in a man's life, he begins to gaze covetously at the pages of furniture catalogues, to long for window boxes and smal...

My short schrifts have been getting the short shrift this week, as I've been getting ready for a last-minute, pinch-hitting teaching ass...

I'm a little behind on this one, and sometimes it feels like all I do is recycle New Yorker articles and Arts & Letters Daily li...

From Snarkmarket's "Can I Be Secretary of Expectations?" : Robin Sloan notes (following Matthew Yglesias) that political elect...

I finally finished The New Yorker's Food Issue, and like any good meal, its finish lived up to the promise of its start. My early diagno...

Maybe it's only because I finally have time to read it in its entirety, but this week's issue of the New Yorker is simply delightful...

Arts & Letters Daily is always a mixed bag -- sometimes obnoxious, sometimes helpful, on rare occasions illuminating -- but every so of...

I've had poems, stories, and even critical essays published before, everywhere from DIY zines to more respectable university press antho...

Forbes, hot off its chat-inducing list of the 40 best cities for singles , recently published a list of the top 60 cheap places to live -- ...

A prediction : George W. Bush will win the 2004 presidential election. It won't be a landslide, but it won't be as close as 2000...