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Rob Nixon, The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a palace revolution, as reality genres—literature's foot soldiers—start clamoring to have their creativity treated with the seriousness it deserves?
Richard Eder, New York Times
Out of a mathematical conceit the Italian writer Paolo Giordano has drawn a mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together over the years and inevitably pull them apart.
Graeme Thomson, The Guardian
What is it about Yeats that is so attractive to rock stars, and why does Auden have the crowd moshing at the Forum?
Katie Robbins, The Atlantic
Given California's storied history of pairing unusual ingredients with winning results—from its namesake California roll to Wolfgang Puck's smoked salmon pizza to the Korean short rib taco—perhaps it should have come as no surprise several years ago when, on a trip to LA, I spotted a sign above a small hole-in-the-wall restaurant advertising Chinese food and donuts.
Frank Bruni, New York Times
If you’re Katie Lee, start with a dollop of fame (marriage to Billy Joel), parboil a couple of cookbooks, marinate on the morning shows and serve a spec TV pilot.
Michelle Rabil, Salon
What kind of a woman uses a funnel to go to the bathroom? I do, and it changed my life.
Jacob A. Bennett, Critical Flame
The choice of the poet to employ the objective personal pronoun — “us” — instead of the subjective — “we” — is the first of many (mis)appropriations that may sound funny to ears accustomed to standard English, but which signal a significant, deliberate shift away from contemporary idiom.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
In James Hynes’s new novel, a middle-aged man on a one-day trip to Austin for a job interview comes full to life at long last and puts an end to his long, long phase of arrested development.
Christopher Beam, Slate Magazine
Do newspapers ever correct a speaker's broken English?
Edward O. Wilson, photograph by David Liittschwager, National Geographic Magazine
Guess how many creatures you'll find in a cube of soil or sea.
Robert Kunzig, National Geographic Magazine
What would it take to green the red planet? For starters, a massive amount of global warming.
Greg Beato, Reason
The coffee giant can’t quite accept its own customers’ tastes.
John T. Edge, New York Times
When it comes to breakfast tacos, which are stuffed with fillings like eggs and bacon, Austin, Tex., trumps all other American cities.
Charlotte Raven, The Guardian
How has it come to this? Feminists blame the sexists, Martin Amis et al, which is easy but unfair. In reality, we can't blame anyone but ourselves.
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