From PopMatters, a review of Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics, ed. David Baggett and William A. Drumin. A review of Woody Allen: An Essay on the Nature of the Comical by Vittorio Hosle. Which New York–subculture films get the details right? From Nextbook, Brooklyn Follies: In Williamsburg! The Musical, Hasids and hipsters find common ground. The hipster doesn't exist. It's an imaginary scapegoat, a convenient target for our disapproval and ridicule.
From The New York Observer, will Wallpaper founder’s new venture get burned? In the opinion of Tyler Brule, the ever-stylish Wallpaper founder, the suits are looking at today’s media landscape completely backwards. Why is Condé Nast's Portfolio so bad? Elizabeth Spiers investigates. The dark world of lads' mags: The worst crime of lad culture was it took old-fashioned chauvinism and served it up in the same format.
Land of the book-free: America's obsession with making money is turning reading into a minority interest in the US. Time to shelve the idea of libraries' decline: The popular notion that people don't want to borrow books any more is well overdue for revision. More Britons dream about becoming an author than any other job, according to a new poll. Sometimes, dreams should stay as just that. So you want to be a writer: They say everyone has a story, but how hard is it to get yours out onto the bookshop shelves? Clare Kermond talks to authors and publishing industry insiders about the tricks of the trade.
