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Middlebrowbeaten
David Futrelle
Earnestly clutching his list of Improving Books,
the hapless middlebrow can't get no respect. But even culture on the
installment plan is better than no culture at all.
The Data Artist
Scott Rosenberg
Chart-master Edward Tufte finds meaning in numbers. Then he shows how good graphs can save lives.
Return of the 50-Foot Pointy-Heads
Gary Kamiya
There's only one way to stop the attack of them thar Alienated Intellectuals -- bring back the Vassar Girl!
Going for Bloke
G. Beato
British men's magazines have invaded America's newsstands.
Too bad they're edited by a bunch of wankers.
Vice grip
Lily Burana
Sure, we all love stories of degradation and vice, especially when the storyteller has a pretty face. But how many bad-girl memoirs do we need, anyway?
“American Junk”
Albert Mobilio
Flea-market connoisseur, Mary Randolph Carter sorts the treasure from the trash.
Let's Get This Straight: February 1997 archives
Scott Rosenberg
Sex and the single post-feminist
Laura Miller
Bad girl Katie Roiphe used to be disgusted. Now she's just confused.
Indecent Exposures
Etelka Lehoczky
No one in the media seems to understand the source of Howard Stern's dark allure. Sigmund Freud might have.
Brat Pack
Rob Spillman
Today's bright young novelists shun the media-chasing antics of '80s hot shots. Or maybe they've just refined the game.
Out of Africa — Thank God
Jonathan Broder
American blacks should stop romanticizing Africa. It's a nightmare of violence and corruption, says the Washington Post's former Africa bureau chief.
Sewer, Gas & Electric
Etelka Lehoczky
Etelka Lehoczky reviews Matt Ruff's book "Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy".
Mon dieu, dude!
Chris Lehmann
Ennui, torpor, and an astonishing lack of joie de vivre. What France needs is a good dose of Left Coast wisdom.
Media Circus: Just say Noam
Kaitlin Quistgaard
The world's most important intellectual is a hit with people who don't even like to read.
Salon: Sharps and Flats
Joe Heim
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Lori Leibovich
One historian says America's "divorce culture" makes us "nasty, hateful, miserable and mean."
Bad juju in Paradise
Richard Gehr
Alex Garland's astonishing first novel echoes "Dog Soldiers" and "Lord of the Flies" in its discovery of the hell that lurks in paradise.
Voice Over?
Sally Eckhoff
Is the Village Voice, after several years of increasing irrelevance, pulling itself together at last-- or is the noise we hear simply the sound of a once-proud liberal icon falling apart?
Beach Boy
Dwight Garner
26-year-old Alex Garland, author of the harrowing novel "The Beach," talks about the quest for mystery in a world that's too well known.
Hollywood's Longest Black List
David Horowitz
This is the debut of a new column by conservative commentator David Horowitz, co-author with Peter Collier of "The Rockefellers," "The Fords" and "The Kennedys." Horowitz, former editor of the left-wing magazine Ramparts and a champion of the Black Panthers, reemerged in the 1980s as a passionate critic of the left. He tells his story in his autobiography, "Radical Son," published this month by the Free Press. Today Horowitz serves as president of the conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture, based in Los Angeles.
Code Boys
Scott Rosenberg
Well-informed fiction -- like Po Bronson's new novel -- may be the best way to map the infinite-loop mind-set of Silicon Valley's obsessed and brightest.
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