Criticism

Literary magazines ranked by their Pushcart Prizes winnings.

By now making fun of hipsters is far too easy for anyone to bother, so the Canadian magazine Adbusters has taken things a step further. The current issue’s cover story, “Hipsters: The Dead End of Western Civilization,” (over-)written by one Douglas Haddow, spares us the niceties and . . . well . . . simply pins the decline of the West on their collective skinny shoulders. Seriously.

Two guys tussle over Whitman, Wikipedia defeats an agent, and more.

David Cushman Coyle's 1947 review of a proto-Pollan critique of the American diet.