Negation, Fall 2004: polemics against the New Republic, McSweeney's, and the Weekly Standard, Mark Greif's Against Exercise and Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, Keith Gessen's Eggers, Teen Idol, Benjamin Kunkel's Horse Mountain, Patrick Giles on James McCou...
Reconstruction, Spring 2006: a symposium on American literature, including Benjamin Kunkel's The Novel, Keith Gessen's Money, and Elif Batuman's Short Story, Philip Connors on life at the Wall Street Journal, Mark Greif's Afternoon of the Sex Childre...
Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster's "global brand" has just reached its ap...