Contents
Volume 8, Number 4
Spring 2010
OUR READERS WRITE BACK
Misanthropic Mistakes; Long on Attitude, Short on Books
FROM THE EDITOR
What is the Crisis in the Humanities?
FEATURES
Politics or Style? The Good-Food Movement, by Nicholas Sabloff.
Floating in a sea of corn and petroleum.
Gottschall's Problem, by Apurva Narechania
Why a maverick scholar gets no respect.
The Fate of Journalism: Scott Sherman Interviews Michael Schudson
Preserving one's optimism while newspapers die.
REVIEWS
David Lynch: Thinking in Pictures, by Thomas Zebrowski
A review of David Lynch: Interviews edited by Richard A. Barney.
Philip Roth's Endgame, by Samuel Garret Zeitlin
A review ofThe Humbling, by Philip Roth.
Will Oil Prices Drive Us Local? by James Roots
A review of Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, by Jeff Rubin.
The Academy and Groupthink, by Gerald Graff.
A review of The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, by Louis Menand.
Playing Posthumous, by Patrick Lohier
A review of Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee.
Stoic Self-Help, by James Fulcher
A review of A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine.
Heartbreaking Restraint, by Adam Davis.
A review of Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers.
Riding the Happy Train, by Judith S. McCue
A review of Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers.
POEMS
The Tall Wet Grass, by Rachel Hadas
BOOKENDS
A History of Twentieth-Century Literature in One Mad Libs Booklet!, by Rebekah Frumkin
Is there an adjective in the house?.
CONTRIBUTORS
