Ciao, Grazie
Just when you feel like you’ve arrived, you’re called away. Our correspondent tallies up his stay and says goodbye to the light, the heat, and the several thousand Pampers left behind.
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10 August 2005
New York's currently: empty, and wonderful, on the weekends Baghdad's mayor ousted by a Shiite militia and replaced by member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Women in Sudan commit adultery to get jail time in order to get a divorce. Ontario to
The New New Journalism
The New New Journalism (freshly out in paperback) is 19 interviews with nonfiction writers. In each, we learn in a new way how insane and creative people are. These folks keep 1940s typewriters around for when they get blocked; they cover the walls with text and peer across the room
9 August 2005
New York's currently: rain, humidity, and whatever's in between In front of installed IAEA surveillance cameras, Iranian technicians resume nuclear work--a move that likely will refer the country to the U.N. Security Council. Oil-for-food official pleads guilty to charges of massive kickbacks.
Downloading for the Greater Good
Fall semester is fast approaching, when students in our best universities will resume buying their essays off the internet and plagiarizing like crazy—and good for them! Why downloading term papers is an asset to higher education.
Popjustice
The best blog about British pop music that you’re not reading is Popjustice. The writing is so hilarious and well crafted, it’ll spoil you for all other music blogs. Haven’t heard any of the artists they talk about? Doesn’t matter: The language of skewering insipid pop
Option C (March)
Pregnant mothers have extraordinary needs—love, support, removal of strangely repugnant odors—but it’s the fathers who are needy. Another chapter in our writer’s illustrated chronicle of worry.
8 August 2005
New York's currently: hot and munky Netanyahu abruptly resigns as protest of Gaza Strip withdrawal. Peter Jennings dies from lung cancer at 67. Japanese prime minister calls snap election after failed attempt to privatize the post office--the very rich post office. One in five flights was late
Holmes Blizzard Fan
My antipathy to all forms of conditioning (excepting a moderate amount of the physical) means I am a, uh, proponent of fans as cooling devices. One of my recent discoveries is the Holmes Blizzard Oscillating Grill Power Fan, which has—get this—a remote control, a timer, and various speed
New Writers, an Employment Opportunity, More
We’re very pleased to announce the addition of two new contributing writers: Jessica Francis Kane, whose gardening column here at TMN, Notes from the Lawn, is a constant source of distress for those of us who have been branded as plant murderers. You know who we are—you can