The world around us has become more Dickensian lately. At least that's how it seems by the way the word circulates.
James M. Lynch | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
We've headed back to the workhouse atmosphere of Dickensian England and the view of employee as dispensable "tool" has returned.
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.
Adam Hanft | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style
Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
The message of Bleak House is that a lawsuit is the end of reason and not as we presuppose, the beginning of reasoned argument.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.26.2009 | Books
I recommend this assignment to those with the crisp copies of Moby-Dick and Brave New World on display probably just to impress people.
Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.
Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
We now measure economic progress not by whether unemployment is going down or up -- it's always going down -- but whether we lost more or fewer jobs than we lost the month before.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
The final online installment of Arthur Rosenfeld's new novel, Quiet Teacher; a new thriller about the lives, loves, and action adventures of Dr. Xenon Pearl, neurosurgeon by day and vigilante by night.
Les Leopold | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment
As we know, certain hedge funds and investment groups are whining about getting only 30 cents on each dollar of the Chrysler debt they hold. In financial-speak, they are getting "haircuts."
Marilia Duffles | Posted 06.03.2009 | World
Like President Lula, I am also Brazilian and occasionally engage in cross-cultural communication with a Brit. My husband.
Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics
Here's a California Carol from the Courage Campaign in time for the Christmas Arnold wants to give us all.
Tom Watson | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment
It's A Wonderful Life has a dark, brooding heart and it openly questions in brutal terms the complaisance of small-town life just after the world's worst-ever conflict, a war that snuffed out tens of millions of people.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style
An excerpt from Dick Cheney's Diary: We turned around and I was back in my bedroom at stately Cheney Manor. "Ronnie? Mr. President?" I whispered, but he was gone.
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
On Nov. 5, if Obama is the president-elect, I think most people -- regardless of their party or ideology -- will take pride in the fact that America is a purple nation, not a red vs. blue one.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media
The McCain-Palin ticket has had a severe impact on the writers of the right and sent them running for the hills. Witness the crescendo of the stampede.
Matthew Pearl | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books