Short Schrift

The Guardian UK has a review of Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics sporting an excellent first paragraph: Very soon, there will be an Inst...

Today's NY Times has an article titled "The Green Machine That Could Be Detroit" -- half serious op-ed, half never-gonna-happe...

After I wrote my post on new music on the 13th, I decided to do a little more digging, to find out if there were some hot new albums I'...

I sometimes wish I wrote about music more in Short Schrift, but I'm always afraid that it'll degenerate into "Hey, I like this!...

This week's New Yorker has two very good pieces of art criticism. The first, and probably the more valuable, is Calvin Tomkins's wr...

On his Current blog, Robin Sloan notes the quality and quantity of citizen journalism generated around the London attacks: in particular, t...

Shelby Foote died today in Memphis . I heard the news today on NPR, and resisted the temptation to rewatch all of Ken Burns' The Civil W...

Get this: On July 4, NASA's Deep Impact shuttle (no joke) is going to try to blow up a comet. Here's the WSJ article . And here...

Today's NYT has a bittersweet op-ed all about the city of Detroit. I think Paul Clemens, the author, is right: he doesn't phrase it...

This week's Times Literary Supplement includes a new poem by Sappho , greatest of the Greek lyric poets, and more than 2500 years young....