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Fast Company
July 2001
Polly Labarre |
Attention Readers! With its pop-up effects, marginalia, lists, and footnotes, The Attention Economy is a masterful exercise in channeling human bandwidth. The basic argument: Human attention has become our scarcest and most precious resource. It not only underpins the workings of the economy -- it is the economy...   |
Salon.com
June 11, 2001
Brett Leveridge |
David Rakoff The author of "Fraud" talks about being Gene Kelly, tiny, tiny writing and the boom in humorous essays... |
Salon.com
June 8, 2001
Matt Thorne |
Battle of the sexes When the women-only Orange Prize brought in a panel of male judges, they asked an age-old question: do men and women have different taste in books? |
Salon.com
June 6, 2001
Larry Platt |
The darker side of Muhammad Ali A devastating book overturns the boxer's saintly image and redeems one victim of his racial stereotyping -- Joe Frazier... |
Salon.com
June 5, 2001
Andrew O'Hehir |
A curiously very great book Although its popularity is unparalleled, intellectuals still question the literary stature of "The Lord of the Rings." Now, one scholar defends it as a modern masterpiece. (Second of two parts.) |
Salon.com
June 4, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
How the other 1 percent lives Whether you're wanting or wealthy, it's getting tougher to eke out a comfortable living these days, two new tomes reveal... |
Salon.com
June 4, 2001
Andrew O'Hehir |
The book of the century Although its popularity is unparalleled, intellectuals dismiss "The Lord of the Rings" as boyish fantasy. Now one scholar defends J.R.R. Tolkien's "true myth" as a modern masterpiece... |
Reason
June 2001
William Ruger |
Foreign Policy Folly A worrisome conservative strategic vision in Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol... |
Reason
June 2001
Jesse Walker |
The Abolition of Man? Tell `em that it's human nature. Delve into literary or film studies, and you'll run into something called genre criticism. Inoffensive in theory, this approach often devolves into a way to complain that artists are not conforming to the critic's pet definitions... |
Reason
June 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact Above is America's most famous manuscript: Jack Kerouac's continuous, 120-foot-long typescript for his 1957 classic On the Road, auctioned by Christie's in May. The scroll has attained near-mythic status... |
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