Critical Eye
Review: The Year of the Gadfly
A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel
By Matt B. Weir Aug 16, 2012 at 03:32 PM
The Year of the Gadfly | By Jennifer Miller | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 384 pages, $24.00 “Even Edward R.... More
Behind Big Oil, the original big business
A review of Steve Coll’s Private Empire
By Gloria Dawson Aug 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | By Steve Coll | Penguin Press HC | 704 pages, $36 When the... More
Required skimming: literary criticism
Keep abreast of what the bookish thinkers are thinking
By Justin Peters Aug 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Q&A: Confront and Conceal author David Sanger
“There’s nothing ‘childish’ about raising issues of great public import”
By Paul Starobin Jul 2, 2012 at 03:02 PM
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power | By David E. Sanger | Crown |... More
How the US captured the real 9/11 mastermind
Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer take us deep inside the hunt for KSM
By Jordan Michael Smith Jun 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed | By Terry... More
Edward Luce charts America’s decline
Is the United States past its prime?
By Daniel Luzer Jun 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent | By Edward Luce | Atlantic Monthly Press | 291... More
America’s forgotten war
Historian Troy Bickham revisits the War of 1812
By Jordan Michael Smith Jun 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812 | By Troy Bickham |... More
Douglas Brinkley talks Cronkite
An interview with the legendary newsman’s biographer
By Paul Starobin Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In Cronkite, his hefty new biography, author and historian Douglas Brinkley tackles the “most trusted man in America,” as newsman... More
Trashed
Trying to get honest about America’s garbage problem
By Daniel Luzer Jun 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash | By Edward Humes | Avery | 288 pages, $27.00 Humans have always... More
Nonfiction’s ‘meta’ moment
Reviewing an anthology of “writings about the writings”
By David Riedel May 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction | Edited by Jill Talbot | University Of Iowa Press | 242 pages, $39.95... More
What it takes to win the White House
A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate
By Jordan Michael Smith May 14, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The Candidate: What It Takes to Win—And Hold—The White House | By Samuel L. Popkin | Oxford University Press... More
The Authentic Mexican Cookoff
Gustavo Arellano, Rick Bayless, and the media’s quest for purity in ethnic cuisine
By Michael Meyer Apr 19, 2012 at 02:14 PM
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America | By Gustavo Arellano | Scribner | 320 pages, $25.00 Recently popularized as... More
Mike Wallace, Reluctant Newsman
A new biography of the late “60 Minutes” reporter reveals how he changed broadcasting while besting inner demons
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 11, 2012 at 02:24 PM
Screenwriter and director Peter Rader’s first book, "Mike Wallace: A Life" was already slated for release on April 13 when... More
Farm to Table
Tracie McMillan reports on the American way of eating
By David Riedel Apr 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table | By Tracie McMillan |... More
Taking Tea with Ayn Rand
Gary Weiss explores Objectivism’s influence on contemporary politics
By Daniel Luzer Mar 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul | By Gary Weiss | St Martin’s Press | 304 pages,... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
