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Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness
Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline
By Jennifer Miller May 17, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Tabloid City | by Pete Hamill | Little, Brown and Company | 288 pages, $26.99 In the opening pages of... More
A Brief History of “Save Darfur”
The Darfur lobby was historic. But was it effective?
By Andrew Stobo Sniderman Mar 16, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide | by Rebecca Hamilton | Palgrave MacMillan | 272... More
A Cook’s Tour with Molly Ivins
A recipe-laden memoir of the columnist’s life and times
By Nicola Kean Nov 3, 2011 at 01:13 PM
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins: A Memoir with Recipes | By Ellen Sweets | University of Texas Press |... More
A Stranger Everywhere
Ze’ev Rosenkranz traces Albert Einstein’s complicated relationship with Zionism
By Jeremy Axelrod Oct 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Einstein Before Israel | By Ze’ev Rosenkranz | Princeton University Press | 364 pages, $35.00 In the 1920s, the general... 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
Anatomy of a Journalist
Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession
By Lauren Kirchner Apr 13, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages,... More
Babel
Robert Lane Greene on why language is always, and never, in decline
By Daniel Luzer Mar 31, 2011 at 01:09 PM
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity | by Robert Lane Greene |... More
Copy Cat
Marcus Boon turns the culture of copying on its head
By Jane Kim Dec 20, 2010 at 02:16 PM
In Praise of Copying | By Marcus Boon | Harvard University Press | 304 pages, $25.95 In the mythology section... More
Defining “Fair Use” for the Digital Age
Aufderheide and Jaszi on how to put the balance back in copyright
By David Riedel Oct 12, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put the Balance Back in Copyright | By Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi | University... 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
Failures of Vision
Errol Morris interrogates photography’s place in the public imagination
By Michael Meyer Sep 21, 2011 at 02:01 PM
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography | by Errol Morris | The Penguin Press | 336 pages,... More
Hell Yes to Hell No
New book flags ways US targets dissent
By Justin D. Martin Dec 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America | By Michael Ratner & Margaret Ratner Kunstler | The New... 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
Jonathan Raban Takes the Scenic Route
A review of Driving Home, the essayist’s latest collection
By Phil Campbell Sep 28, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Driving Home: An American Journey | By Jonathan Raban | Pantheon Books | 496 pp, $29.95 It’s a shame that... More
Letter Perfect
Inside Elizabeth Bishop’s forty-year correspondence with The New Yorker
By Jeremy Axelrod Feb 17, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 496... More
Mad Men: Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test
A travelogue of insanity with the author of Them
By Caroline H. Dworin Jun 7, 2011 at 11:34 AM
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through The Madness Industry | by Jon Ronson | Riverhead | 288 pages, $25.95 Jon... More
Memoirs of an Accidental Sportswriter
Robert Lipsyte’s new memoir recounts fifty years on the sports pages
By Sam Eifling May 25, 2011 at 12:42 PM
An Accidental Sportswriter | by Robert Lipsyte | Ecco | 256 pages, $25.99 Robert Lipsyte’s An Accidental Sportswriter doesn’t leave... 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
Notes from Underground
The posthumous memoir of an alternative press pioneer
By Cid Standifer Oct 26, 2011 at 02:25 PM
My Odyssey through the Underground Press | By Michael Kindman | Michigan State University Press | 256 pages, $39.95 We’ve... More
Number Cruncher
A new biography vindicates a forgotten innovator
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 24, 2010 at 09:54 AM
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer | By Jane Smiley | Doubleday |... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
