Mobile India: Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey’s “The Great Indian Phone Book”
Today there are nearly 900 million cell phone subscribers in India.
Today there are nearly 900 million cell phone subscribers in India.
Swati PandeyAug 15, 2013
1. MARIA BUSTILLOS: I ONLY MET HIM a couple of times, and only for a few minutes each time, but a very striking feature of being in David Foster...
Maria Bustillos, Michael Goetzman, Eric BeenNov 25, 2012
ON AUGUST 2, 2003, Deputy Sheriff Steve Sorensen drove onto the property of desert hermit Don Kueck in a remote corner of the Antelope Valley...
Gayle BrandeisAug 19, 2012
SO MUCH HAS BEEN said and written about this stunning, prolific author that many of us have strong perceptions of her, be they right or wrong...
MaryAnne KoltonJun 11, 2012
David fished a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it for me. "Of course you're having a crisis. Look, everybody is having a crisis all of the time...
Zeke TurnerJun 8, 2012
ONCE UPON A TIME in a Peanuts comic strip, Linus explained to Lucy that when Juliet asked, "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" she wasn't asking where Romeo...
Dave WhiteJun 1, 2012
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Rudy RuckerJun 1, 2012
a narrative that, even when circling away to the streets of Paris or the souks of Tangiers, continually spirals back to the figures by the roadside
Jennifer WallaceMar 30, 2012
Our heroes: unlikely philosophers, whining their way through the American South
Susan Salter ReynoldsMar 24, 2012
Ford’s obsession is such that even his home, the space that shapes and surrounds his daily life, becomes a relentless design project
Jonathan CrismanMar 23, 2012
As any writer knows, our work is infused with ego.
Ander MonsonMar 20, 2012
The writer and editor, too, are headaches.
Lee GutkindMar 19, 2012
In his latest book, God is Red, Liao continues his study of the bottom rung of society by focusing on underground Christian communities in China.
Albert WuMar 8, 2012
While the cannibal was a prize specimen for theories of the state and human nature, he also posed a grave problem.
Steven ShapinMar 7, 2012
Okay! I get it! The French are better than us in every way!
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
Gross offers up a capsule history of the settlement of this triangular mecca and traces the westerly movement of Los Angeles’s well-to-do.
Jeffrey BurbankFeb 21, 2012
The only way to get to real cultural diversity is to tell stories in which the diversity is real.
John RomanoFeb 17, 2012
In The Swerve, however, death is nothing, and people aren’t much either.
Swati PandeyFeb 17, 2012
It quickly became clear that he loved Sherlock Holmes and the entire Holmes canon as much as I did, though for different reasons.
Leslie S. KlingerFeb 16, 2012
Hefner’s sexual tastes — sunny blondes with big boobs, in the main — became an American archetype.
Michaelangelo MatosFeb 14, 2012
IN THE SWIRL OF COMMENTARY surrounding Pulphead, the essay collection by John Jeremiah Sullivan, nothing seems to come up more than the so-called New...
Eric BeenFeb 10, 2012
the idea that the brain's hemispheres, though linked, worked independently has a long history.
Gary LachmanFeb 9, 2012
AT THE PEAK OF HIS CAREER and in the full ripeness of his abundant talents, the intellectual historian Tony Judt was struck down by Lou Gehrig's...
G.J. MeyerFeb 8, 2012
Some will be uncomfortable with Damasio’s physical-monist peeking-under-the-hood of our most private inner workings ...
Aaron P. BlaisdellFeb 7, 2012