Bloggers, Hobbits, and Architectural Critics

Iker Gil of MAS Context forwards on this post from Shannon Mattern of The New School about the role of … More

And the Winner Is . . .

At 8 PM CST I pulled my two-year-old daughter Jillian, who is incorruptible, away from her dollhouse to draw a … More

Today a Chinese blogger named Xu Lai was stabbed in a Beijing bookstore called, of all things, One Way Street. … More

As a sort of third anniversary edition, and in anticipation of an expanded version of one post from this space … More

I’m sitting at home on a Friday evening relaxing with a drink and rereading this past week’s entries for the … More

For a while I’ve been thinking about making some adjustments to the form of this blog, and the summer is … More

Speaking as someone whose son is named Benjamin (I swear we didn’t intentionally name him after WB, but . . … More

Remember the days before the iPhone? Some indispensable part of our culture arrives at the same pace Apple releases major … More

I leave tomorrow for two weeks on sunny Oak Island, NC, where I will be lying on the beach, reading … More

Yesterday’s post on the decline of the traditional book review got me to thinking about the public sphere, a term … More