Essays

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...

Paris is becoming a cultural backwater, doctors are becoming art scholars, and more.

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

Our Portuguese correspondent on Lisbon’s fashion renaissance.

Stoyan is the mayor of Hope. He is also its doctor, social worker, psychologist, marriage counselor, teacher, judge.

We were late arriving in Damascus, though I can’t remember exactly why. There was traffic coming out of Aleppo, or perhaps we got lost in Damascus, or perhaps the stop for strong, bitter coffee along the way—our driver’s eyes kept...

A 1968 article foretells the world of “2000 A.D.”

Our 1953 review of “The Old Man and the Sea,” in hindsight.

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