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A complete archive of CJR's Page Views articles
March 21, 2009

This is a list of every Page Views piece, presented in reverse chronological order.

August 2012

08/23/12: Review: Dennis Drabelle’s The Great American Railroad War – A How Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce helped keep a crooked railroad honest – Bill Marx

08/16/12: Review: The Year of the Gadfly – A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel – Matt B. Weir

08/06/12: Behind Big Oil, the original big business – A review of Steve Coll’s Private EmpireGloria Dawson

July 2012

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07/02/12: Q&A: Confront and Conceal author David Sanger – “There’s nothing ‘childish’ about raising issues of great public import” – Paul Starobin

June 2012

06/29/12: How the US captured the real 9/11 mastermind – Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer go deep inside the hunt for KSM – Jordan Michael Smith

06/28/12: Edward Luce charts America’s decline – Is the United States past its prime? – Daniel Luzer

06/27/12: America’s forgotten war – Historian Troy Bickham revisits the War of 1812 – Jordan Michael Smith

06/04/12: Trashed – Trying to get honest about America’s garbage problem – Daniel Luzer

May 2012

05/23/12: Nonfiction’s ‘meta’ moment – Reviewing an anthology of “writings about the writings” – David Riedel

05/14/12: What it takes to win the White House – A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The CandidateJordan Michael Smith

April 2012

04/19/12: The Authentic Mexican Cookoff – Gustavo Arellano, Rick Bayless, and the media’s quest for purity in ethnic cuisine – Michael Meyer

04/11/12: Farm to Table – Tracie McMillan reports on the American way of eating – David Riedel

March 2012

03/29/12: Taking Tea with Ayn Rand – Gary Weiss explores Objectivism’s influence on contemporary politics – Daniel Luzer

03/07/12: How Vladimir Putin Came to Power – Masha Gessen takes a hard look at the Russian president – Malcolm Forbes

February 2012

02/29/12: Revisiting Henry Luce’s “American Century” – Andrew Bacevich and others revisit the influential essay – Jordan Michael Smith

02/08/12: Remembering the Golden Age of Book Publishing – A review of Richard Seaver’s The Tender Hour of TwilightPhil Campbell

02/02/12: The Literary Roots of the Gay Revolution – Reviewing Christopher Bram’s Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed AmericaJordan Michael Smith

December 2011

12/07/11: Hell Yes to Hell No – New book flags ways US targets dissent – Justin D. Martin

November 2011

11/29/11: Q&A: News for All the People Co-Author Juan González – The Daily News columnist talks about race and the media – Ernest R. Sotomayor

11/03/11: A Cook’s Tour with Molly Ivins – A recipe-laden memoir of the columnist’s life and times – Nicola Kean

October 2011

10/26/11: Notes from Underground – The posthumous memoir of an alternative press pioneer – Cid Standifer

10/19/11: A Lifesaver Made of Paper – Rosie Garthwaite shows journos how to stay alive in dangerous places – Kevin Douglas Grant

10/12/11: Defining “Fair Use” for the Digital Age – Aufderheide and Jaszi on how to put the balance back in copyright – David Riedel

10/05/11: A Stranger Everywhere – Ze’ev Rosenkranz traces Albert Einstein’s complicated relationship with Zionism – Jeremy Axelrod

September 2011

09/28/11: Jonathan Raban Takes the Scenic Route – A review of Driving Home, the essayist’s latest collection – Phil Campbell

09/21/11: Failures of Vision – Errol Morris interrogates photography’s place in the public imagination – Michael Meyer

09/16/11: Summer Movie Club: Fletch – Getting the story, one quip at a time – Alysia Santo

09/14/11: Tracing the Roots of Modern Conservatism – Remembering the legacies of Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft – Jordan Michael Smith

09/09/11: Summer Movie Club: Call Northside 777 – Real journalism is too boring for the movies – Brent Cunningham

09/01/11: Summer Movie Club: The Parallax View – Alan J. Pakula’s sober counterpoint to All The President’s MenErika Fry

August 2011

08/26/11: Summer Movie Club: Good Night, and Good Luck – What happened to TV news? – Michael Meyer

08/19/11: Summer Movie Club: Newsies – In the words of Christian Bale: “Headlines don’t sell papes; newsies sell papes” – Katia Bachko

08/12/11: Summer Movie Club: Ace in the Hole – What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal – Ryan Chittum

08/10/11: Searching for D.B. Cooper – Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit – Jordan Michael Smith

July 2011

07/29/11: Summer Movie Club: Almost Famous – Who’s afraid of Rolling Stone? – Liz Cox Barrett

07/22/11: Summer Movie Club: The Big Clock – A murderous publisher’s corporate noir – Clint Hendler

07/15/11: Summer Movie Club: Absence of Malice – When bad journalism kills – Lauren Kirchner

07/08/11: Summer Movie Club: The Year of Living Dangerously – A group of hollow career fetishists and a moralizing dwarf – Joel Meares

07/07/11: Q&A: Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington – “The ultimate truth about war is that you are guaranteed to lose your brothers.” – Michael Meyer

07/01/11: Summer Movie Club: Superman – The Man of Steel has better things to do than be a reporter – Michael Meyer

June 2011

06/24/11: Summer Movie Club: The Devil Wears Prada – A light-as-a-model guilty pleasure – Joel Meares

06/07/11: Mad Men: Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test – A travelogue of insanity with the author of ThemCaroline Dworin

May 2011

05/25/11: Memoirs of an Accidental Sportswriter – Robert Lipsyte’s new memoir recounts fifty years on the sports pages – Sam Eifling

05/17/11: Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness – Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline – Jennifer Miller

April 2011

04/20/11: Q&A: Calvin Trillin – “I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time” – Michael Meyer

04/13/11: Anatomy of a Journalist – Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession – Lauren Kirchner

04/06/11: Out of Style – The writers of @FakeAPStylebook transfer Twitter to the printed page – Megan Garber

March 2011

03/31/11: Babel – Robert Lane Greene on why language is always, and never, in decline – Daniel Luzer

03/23/11: We Love the Eighties – David Sirota traces the outsized influence of the “Me Decade” – Jessica Loudis

03/16/11: A Brief History of “Save Darfur” – The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective? – Andrew Stobo Sniderman

February 2011

02/17/11: Letter Perfect – Inside Elizabeth Bishop’s forty-year correspondence with The New YorkerJeremy Axelrod

02/10/11: Pretty Pictures, Hard Times – A look back at the illustrated magazines of the 1840s – Daniel Luzer

January 2011

01/05/10: The News from Norway – A comprehensive look at the history of the Norwegian American press – Kathy Gilsinan

2010

December 2010

12/22/10: Playing Around – Ian Bogost and colleagues address the advantages and challenges of newsgames – Alyssa Abkowitz

12/20/10: Copy Cat – Marcus Boon turns the culture of copying on its head – Jane Kim

November 2010

11/24/10: Number Cruncher – A new biography vindicates John Atanasoff, a forgotten digital innovator – Lauren Kirchner

October 2010

10/27/10: Waiting for Substance – Davis Guggenheim’s high-profile documentary shortchanges the education debate – LynNell Hancock

10/18/10: Hope Deferred – Roger Hodge on whether Obama will save American liberalism—or bury it – Greg Marx

September 2010

09/30/10: You Don’t Know Jack – An epochal slap-down and the birth of modern media culture – Ryan Grim

09/16/10: Not Dead Yet – Inside The Washington Post’s struggle to save itself – David Gura

August 2010

08/30/10: Universal Blues – James Baldwin’s prose still speaks volumes about race, class, and America – Kimberly Chou

08/12/10: The Write Stuff – Has Yahoo created an AP stylebook for the digital age? – Bill Grueskin

July 2010

07/19/10: Hot Zone – Imtiaz Gul offers a portrait of Pakistan’s volatile frontier – Kathy Gilsinan

June 2010

06/30/10: Celluloid Heroes – Champion jazz critic Gary Giddins turns to the silver screen – Tim Appelo

06/17/10: House of Games – Tom Bissell’s spirited defense of the “digital dollhouse” – Gregory Beyer

May 2010

05/03/10: Behind Bars – Roxana Saberi talks about her Iranian captivity – Nazanin Rafsanjani

April 2010

04/23/10: Flight Path – Have Western journalists given Islamofascism a free ride? – Josh Gohlke

04/15/10: Mind Games – Jack Fuller asks whether neuroscience can explain the crisis in news – Todd Gitlin

04/08/10: Head Case – The artful eccentricity of St. Clair McKelway – Abigail Deustch

March 2010

03/26/10: Texas Tornado – A one-woman show resurrects the late Molly Ivins – Julia M. Klein

03/18/10: Hooking the Big Ones – Matt Labash’s meetings with remarkable men – Toby Warner

February 2010

02/23/10: Remote Control – How Joseph Pulitzer built a media powerhouse—in absentia – Tom Goldstein

January 2010

01/21/10: Character Studies – A new anthology from David Maraniss highlights the human factor – Steve Weinberg

01/13/10: Free At Last? – Lee Bollinger makes an impassioned pitch for press freedoms in the new century – Eve Burton

2009

December 2009

12/10/09: Rebel with a Cause – A new biography depicts Molly Ivins in high definition – Megan Garber

12/02/09: Show and Tell – An enlightening history of the Danish cartoon controversy–minus the cartoons – David Gura

November 2009

11/20/09: Heroes and Villains and Literary Geniuses – An audio conversation with David Hajdu – James Marcus

11/12/09: Bomb Squad – The explosive rise (and final fizzle) of RampartsClint Hendler

11/04/09: Picture Perfect – A DVD reissue of Scandal Sheet is good news indeed – Wendell Jamieson

October 2009

10/01/09: Throw the Rascals In! – Joe Flaherty’s classic account of Mailer and Breslin on the hustings – Jamie Malanowski

September 2009

09/24/09: California Dreaming – An era of “strange quietude” in the Golden State – Toby Warner

09/16/09: Out of Africa – Tracy Kidder on the raw and redemptive odyssey of a Burundian refugee – Gregory Beyer

August 2009

08/27/09: Core Competencies – Alex Jones on why we must maintain the “iron core of news” – Steve Weinberg

July 2009

07/30/09: “Malaise” Maligned – Kevin Mattson looks back at Jimmy Carter’s ill-fated speech – Megan Garber

07/22/09: The Art of Listening – Pete Hamill chats about the joys of A.J. Liebling – James Marcus

07/16/09: A Lapdog in Wolffe’s Clothing – Richard Wolffe’s fawning account of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign – James Kirchick

07/02/09: Pilgrims or Progress? – A Harper’s editor’s stint as a cultural virologist – Jane Kim

June 2009

06/17/09: Where Credit Is Due – A Financial Times reporter explores how a JP Morgan invention spurred the financial crisis – Ryan Chittum

06/10/09: Hand Crafted – Can a return to manual labor fix our ailing economy? – Katia Bachko

06/03/09: With God On Our Side – Reza Aslan redraws the line in the sand – Kathy Gilsinan

May 2009

05/28/09: Polar Distress – Cass Sunstein on the dynamics of extremism – Megan Garber

05/21/09: Channel Surfing in Riyadh – Neil MacFarquhar on the combustible politics and morphing media of the Middle East – Paul McLeary

05/06/09: Harrison Redux – The resurrection of pioneering cultural journalist Hubert Harrison – Scott McLemee

April 2009

04/29/09: High and Outside – The author of Generation Kill chronicles the lost tribes of America – James Marcus

04/15/09: Married to the Military – Opposites attract in ex-stripper Lily Burana’s memoir of army life – Courtney Reimer

04/01/09: Anatomy of a Murder – How journalists dropped the ball on the Columbine massacre – Steve Weinberg

March 2009

03/25/09: Numbers Game – The long, unsavory, and amusing history of the American lottery – Gregory Beyer

03/18/09: MySpace Odyssey – Julia Angwin on the rise of a social-networking leviathan—and its uncertain future – James Marcus

03/04/09: Taming the Bear – Did Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviets—or did Forrest Gump? – Ryan Grim

February 2009

02/25/09: Paper Chase – Former Washington Post editor Downie moves from facts to fictions – Caroline Dworin

02/18/09: The Search for a Happy Ending – Film critic David Thomson gives his London childhood the Hollywood treatment – Michelle Vellucci

02/11/09: The Missing Refrigerator – Essayist Eula Biss steps up the race dialogue – Jane Kim

02/04/09: Two Lives – The bifurcated existence of a Gilded Age celebrity – Elinore Longobardi

January 2009

01/28/09: Wising Up – “Investigative humorist” Henry Alford learns from his elders – Gregory Beyer

01/21/09: Sticks and Stones – David Denby goes toe-to-toe with the scourge of snark – James Marcus

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