A new issue of Context, is out, including A Kick in the Pants: Reintroducing Henry Miller; and The Rise of Market Criticism in the U.S.: A review of The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History by Walter Benn Michaels. After a long period of waning, satire is back in American culture. Check out The New Haven Review of Books, founded to publish reviews, essays, poems, fiction, and occasional pieces by writers who live in the New Haven area. Post-Katrina Literature: After millions of words of factual reports about the 2005 natural disaster, only now is fiction beginning to reflect its impact. A Pulitzer Prize winner who spends very little time writing? Hailed as the most important poet of his generation, Paul Muldoon likes to keep a clear head.
The first chapter from The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City by Elizabeth Currid. Modernism gets brutalist treatment: Historic buildings are in danger of being lost to bland commercial development, as the work of an entire generation of architects is purged from the landscape. A review of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill. Only React: A coolly cerebral engagement with the arts may be the mark of an intellectual, but why not succumb to an effusion of emotion?
What are the social consequences of this new kind of ground-up web activity called Web 2.0? A review of Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds by Tim Guest; The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen; and The Internet Imaginaire by Patrice Flichy. A space of her own: Danah Boyd believes politicians fail to understand the internet as a public space not unlike a park in which rules of social interaction have to be observed. An arch and fiery spirit: On her blog, the late Theresa Duncan shared what caught her fancy. A fan follows the map. Spcok.com is preparing to launch an ambitious Internet search engine that it hopes will eventually track down the names of the world's six billion people.
