A few years ago, teaching a class on the open road, I asked my students to read Echo Burning, the fifth of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, published in 2001. Wandering a borderlands landscape populated by strong, dangerous, rapacious men—the sort of men one finds in the work of Cormac
King’s croak and oleo some throatwork that took my mindoff eating jelly with Jif with. a yellow, I had to know: do I have soul? I had to ask the brown one who knew said “s
Obama gives 300,000 workers paid sick leave. The president spent Labor Day signing an executive order requiring federal contractors to offer their employees seven days of
It’s more than 90 minutes into the new film 90 Minutes In Heaven—after he’s declared dead in a car accident, only to survive and endure a tedious recovery—before the protagonist, Don Piper (Hayden Christensen), finally tells
Last month, the Florida chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists hosted an afternoon panel about GamerGate, the yearlong campaign either about ethics in game journalism or the harassment of women in the tech industr
One of the more popular functions of contemporary criticism is quality control; from off-color craft beer labels to
Five years ago, the confluence of globalization, the internet, and the popularity of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love led to a spate of think pieces mourning the death of the great travel writing tradition. Graeme Wood complained in Foreign Policy that the ease of travel had s
