The Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Era: On John B. Thompson’s “Book Wars”
A new book maps how the publishing ecosystem has persisted and morphed in the digital environment....
Corpse Capitalism: On John Troyer’s “Technologies of the Human Corpse”
A curiously optimistic new study of the commercial exploitation of dead bodies....
If It Isn’t Broken: A Conversation with Justine Bateman
Justine Bateman discusses her new book, “Face,” which examines the lengths many women go to in order to “fix” their aging faces....
Strategic Audio: Podcasts, Propaganda, and the Fairy Tales of Data Mining
Michelle Chihara explores the podcast form as a vehicle for corporate puffery masquerading as journalistic inquiry....
Antiseptic Glass Stream
Sun-ha Hong deconstructs the “paradox of intimacy and disconnection” at the heart of the Peloton fitness brand....
Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes
Mark Haskell Smith talks Athenian rudeness with Aaron Poochigian, translator of “Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly.”...
Behind Closed Doors: America’s Couple Therapy Entertainment Complex
Every generation gets the iconic couples therapist it deserves....
The Comedian in Pain
If our great comics have all been martyrs, maybe the great martyrs were also comics....
At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”
An inquiry into a fierce culture war shines light on an insular sect of Judaism....
Academic Affects: A Conversation on Guilty Pleasures
Sarah Mesle talks with Arielle Zibrak, Ana Quiring, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins about the “bad” feelings of aesthetic experience....
The Game of Critique
Andrew Fleshman reviews Patrick Jagoda’s “Experimental Games.”...
The Limits of Clean Lines: On Jordan Peterson’s “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life”
David Wolpe looks at the new book from Jordan Peterson, “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.”...
