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Lingua Franca (magazine)
''Lingua Franca'' was an American magazine about intellectual and literary life in academia. Founding The magazine was founded in 1990 by Jeffrey Kittay, an editor and professor of French literature at Yale University. Kittay, as the ''New York Times'' reported, "saw a niche for vivid reporting about the academic world and especially about its many personal feuds and intellectual controversies." Kittay told the newspaper, "I was an academic who was very, very hungry for information about what made my profession so alive, where people became passionate about abstract ideas." Describing the magazine's impact years later, in the '' New York Observer'', Ron Rosenbaum wrote that "It soon became a much-talked-about phenomenon inside and outside academia." In November, 2000, on the journal's tenth anniversary, the ''Village Voice'' commented that "''Lingua Francas influence on nineties magazine culture has been so strong, it's sometimes hard to remember that it was unique in academia when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History '' Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the ''Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The Spectator'' (1828), and '' Athenaeum'' (1828). In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Kaplan (journalist)
Fred M. Kaplan (born July 4, 1954) is an American author and journalist. His weekly "War Stories" column for ''Slate'' magazine covers international relations and U.S. foreign policy. Biography Kaplan was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Julius E. and Ruth (Gottfried) Kaplan.''Contemporary Authors'', p. 242. He received a bachelor's degree (1976) from Oberlin College and a Master of Science (1978) and Ph.D. (1983) in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1980, he was a foreign and defense policy adviser to U.S. Congressman Les Aspin ( D, Wisconsin). Before writing for ''Slate'', Kaplan was a correspondent at the ''Boston Globe'', reporting from Washington, D.C.; Moscow; and New York City. In 1982, he contributed to "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age," a Sunday ''Boston Globe Magazine'' special report on the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race that received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1983. He has also written for other publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Observer
''The New York Observer'' was a weekly newspaper printed from 1987 to 2016, when it ceased print publication and became the online-only newspaper ''Observer''. The media site focuses on culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. History The ''Observer'' was first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, as a weekly newspaper by Arthur L. Carter, a former investment banker. The ''New York Observer'' had also been the title of an earlier weekly religious paper founded by Sidney E. Morse in 1823. In July 2006, the paper was purchased by the American real estate figure Jared Kushner, then 25 years old. The paper began its life as a broadsheet, and was then printed in tabloid format every Wednesday, and currently has an exclusively online format. It is headquartered at 1 Whitehall Street in Manhattan. Previous writers for the publication include Kara Bloomgarden–Smoke, Kim Velsey, Matthew Kassel, Jillian Jorgensen, Joe Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Rosenbaum
Ronald Rosenbaum (born November 27, 1946) is an American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist. Life and career Rosenbaum was born into a Jewish family in New York City, New York and grew up in Bay Shore, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to attend Yale's graduate program in English Literature, though he dropped out after taking one course. He was an editor of The Fire Island News and then wrote for ''The Village Voice'' for several years, leaving in 1975 after which he wrote for ''Esquire'', '' Harper's'', ''High Times'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''New York Times Magazine'' and ''Slate''. Rosenbaum spent more than ten years doing research on Adolf Hitler including travels to Vienna, Munich, London, Paris, and Jerusalem, interviewing leading historians, philosophers, biographers, theologians and psychologists. Some of those interviewed by Rosenbaum included Daniel Goldhagen, David Irving, Rudolph Binion, Claude Lanzmann, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Thompson (journalist)
Clive Thompson (born 30 October 1968) is a Canadian freelance journalist, blogger, and science and technology writer. Early life and education Thompson grew up in the 1970s and the 1980s in Toronto, Canada. He spent his childhood working with early models of computers. He tried to understand programs for games and for artificial intelligence as a child but did not succeed, so he chose not to study science. Thompson graduated from the University of Toronto with majors in political science and English in 1992. He previously worked for Canada's ''Report on Business'' magazine, ''This Magazine'', and ''Shift'' magazine, then became a freelance contributor for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Lingua Franca'', ''Wired'', ''Shift'', ''Entertainment Weekly'' and several other publications. Professional work Thompson writes about digital technologies and their social and cultural impact for a number of publications, including the ''New York Times Magazine'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Nussbaum
Emily Nussbaum (born February 20, 1966) is an American television critic. She served as the television critic for ''The New Yorker'' from 2011 until 2019. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Early life Nussbaum was born in the United States to mother Toby Nussbaum and Bernard Nussbaum, who served as White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. Nussbaum was raised in Scarsdale, New York, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1988. She earned a master's degree in poetry from New York University and started a doctoral program in literature, but decided not to pursue teaching. Career After living in Providence, Rhode Island, and Atlanta, Georgia, Nussbaum began writing reviews of TV shows following her infatuation with the series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and posting at the website Television Without Pity. She began writing for ''Lingua Franca'' and served as editor-in-chief of ''Nerve''. She also wrote for ''Slate'' and ''The New York Times.'' Nussbaum t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mooney (journalist)
Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is an American journalist and author of four books including ''The Republican War on Science'' (2005). Mooney's writing focuses on subjects such as climate change denialism and creationism in public schools, and he has been described as "one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics." In 2020 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on global warming published in The Washington Post. Early life and education Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of his parents were college English professors. He attended Isidore Newman School before entering Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1999. His interest in the natural sciences was strongly influenced by his grandfather Gerald A. Cole, a professor at Arizona State University and author of ''Textbook of Limnology'', a noted book in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Robin
Corey Robin (born 1967) is an American political theorist, journalist and professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written books on the role of fear in political life, tracing its presence from Aristotle through the war on terror, and on the nature of conservatism in the modern world, from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump. Most recently, he is the author of a study of Justice Clarence Thomas that argues that the mainspring of Thomas's jurisprudence is a combination of black nationalism and black conservatism. Early life and education Raised in a Jewish family in Chappaqua, New York, Robin graduated from Princeton University and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999. Career Robin is the author of the books ''Fear: The History of a Political Idea'', which won the Best First Book in Political Theory Award from the American Political Science Association, and ''The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeet Heer
Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic, literary critic and journalist. He is a national affairs correspondent for ''The Nation'' magazine and a former staff writer at ''The New Republic''. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at York University in Toronto. The publications he has written for include ''The National Post'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', and ''Virginia Quarterly Review''. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the Scotiabank Giller Prize The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition be .... His anthology ''A Comic Studies Reader'', with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award. Selected works * ''Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium'' (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004) * ''A Comics Studies Reader'' (edited with Kent Worceste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Crain
Caleb Crain is an American writer, who was a Lambda Literary Award nominee in the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, Gay Fiction category at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014 for his debut novel ''Necessary Errors''."26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced" Lambda Literary Foundation, March 6, 2014. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University, Crain has published book reviews and essays in publications including ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The London Review of Books'', ''The Nation'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''Out (magazine), Out'' and ''The New Republic''. He also published the non-fiction book ''American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Osborne
Lawrence Osborne (born 1958) is a British novelist and journalist who is currently residing in Bangkok. Osborne was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University, and has since led a nomadic life, residing for years in Poland, France, Italy, Morocco, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and Istanbul. Osborne has been published widely as a long-form journalist in the United States, most notably in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New Yorker'', '' Gourmet'', ''Salon'', ''Playboy'', and ''Condé Nast Traveler''. His writings about wine and spirits appeared in a regular column called Cellar in '' Men's Vogue''. He has also been an occasional Op-Ed columnist at Forbes.com and is a frequent contributor to '' Newsweek International'', ''The Daily Beast'', and ''The Wall Street Journal Magazine''. His feature for ''Playboy'', "Getting a Drink in Islamabad", won a 2011 Thomas Lowell Award for Travel Journalism. He is the author of the novel ''Ania Malina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Secor
Laura Secor is an American journalist whose work has focused on Iranian politics and Iran–United States relations. She has written about personal stories, such as the experience of poet Asieh Amini, and has also written a book, ''Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran''. Education and career Secor earned an B.A. in philosophy at Brown University before beginning to cover Iran. After visiting Iran in 2004 she was struck by the vocal dissent there of the people against their government. She began to write about the reform movement there and individuals struggling for change. She also writes about the Iranian diaspora in the US and has documented the case of Sirous Asgari Sirous Asgari ( fa, سیروس عسگری, born 7 August 1960) is an Iranian materials scientist and academic known for his research in lithium ion batteries, phase transformation and diffusion in solid materials. He is currently a full professor .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
