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Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Josh Katz
Despite homogenization and globalization, not to mention migration across state lines, regional differences persist in America’s spoken English. Some of those differences came as a surprise to New Jersey-born New Yorker Josh Katz, who compi... more
An Un-American Election
As an idealistic, progressive voter, I’ve voted for plenty of losing candidates over the years. But there’s never been a U.S. election before where I’ve considered the results clearly un-American until now. more
Milwaukee Film Festival presents ‘Passport: Germany’
Hannah Arendt’s phrase, “the banality of evil,” has entered the vocabulary to describe not the architects of human catastrophe but the mechanics and janitors—the “little people” who grease the wheels and lubricate the engines of destr... more
Art And Nature At The Portrait Society
Fifty-plus years ago as a teen seeking the “meaning of contentment,” I listened to Elvis wail “Crying in the Chapel” and decided it was strictly cornball. My mature preferences lead me to the spiritual highs discovered in woodlands more
If We're Headed Toward Greece, GOP Is Driving Us There
When Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters that Mitt Romney's foreign investment accounts... more
Pure Talent on Display at Erickson Gallery
Elaine Erickson Gallery is on floor one of the Marshall Building, 207 E. Buffalo St. Erickson has certainly seen changes in the business of selling art. As Peter Schjeldahl notes in the May 7, 2012, issue of The New Yorker (“All Is Fairs x9... more
Out of the Vinyl Deeps (University of Minnesota Press), by Ellen Willis
Rock critics often carried on like a boys' club (but then, so did most rock bands). An important, often overlooked female voice from the early years, Ellen Willis, became The New Yorker's first pop music critic in 1968. Sensing that the mus... more
Winter’s Bone
A wintry, bleak and impoverished stretch of the Ozarks is the setting for the darkly compelling drama Winter’s Bone. In a Southern gothic worthy of Flannery O’Connor, a teenage girl, Ree (Jennifer Lawrence), is determined to keep her family from .. more
Sausage, Beer and Kraut
Milwaukee's German heritage goes back centuries. Options for dining out on food from the fatherland, however, tend to be pricy. The Old German Beer Hall bucks the trend by offering a less expensive place to sample the cuisine of one of the ... more
In Search of Lost Worlds
When you were younger, did you enjoy reading novels of dangerous exploits in fabulous, far The Lost City of Z ,Books more
Mamet Shorts
The Boulevard Theatre continues its season with three early shorts by Chicago-born playwri Mam3t Plays, ,Theater more
Terrorist Obama cover nearly doubles New Yorker sales
If you thought that the New Yorker Obama cover was offensive, well, you sure didn’t show it. The magazine is having trouble keeping up with the demand for issues with the controversial cover. The New York Post reports that the typical 43,000 newss.. more
Mea Culpa Monday: The longest correction ever edition
It may be the longest newspaper correction you’ll ever see. Last week, The Las Vegas Sun devoted 535 words, nine full paragraphs explaining six distinct ways the article manipulated statistics, misreported facts, and improperly generated sources t.. more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
In his beautifully written preface, New Yorker musiccritic Alex Ross concedes that 20th-c New Yorker ,None more
