Editor’s Note: Steve LeVine, author of the book Putin’s Labyrinth, has asked to reply to the review of his book by Stephen Boykewich that appears in our Winter 2009 issue. His response is printed in its entirety below.
On April 2, President...
The unsustainability of organic farming, modern-day slavery among tomato pickers, the invention of the cocktail, two new books of poetry, and more.
When food becomes a mask for snobbery and pretension the foodie underground ceases to be a movement and starts to become nothing more than a demographic.
At long last, my article about Suriname has appeared in Outside magazine.
Their opposition to the Kindle 2 looks a lot like the recording industry’s opposition to downloadable audio.
A new installment in the VQR Poetry Series, Oxford American gets a bailout, and more.
The death of the great Sudanese novelist went largely without comment in this country.
Researchers may render influenza as innocuous as polio or diphtheria.
Why is Janet Maslin concerned with how “hot” a writer is?
Print on demand becomes viable, reviews of cookbooks, an obscenely bad book, and more.
