A conversation with Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer talks with Sage Stossel about cartooning and his new memoir Backing Into Forward
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Introverts of the World Unite
Fellow introverts Jonathan Rauch and Sage Stossel discuss Rauch’s overwhelmingly popular essay in the March 2003 Atlantic, which may have unwittingly touched off an Introverts’ Rights revolution
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A Kinder, Gentler Overclass
A conversation with David Brooks, the author of Bobos in Paradise, who explains why bourgeois bohemians are here to stay
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A Reader’s Revenge
A conversation with B. R. Myers, the author of A Reader’s Manifesto, who argues that the time has come for readers to stand up to the literary establishment
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The Loyal Catholic
A conversation with Garry Wills, the author of Why I Am a Catholic, who talks about faith, scandal, and the importance of constructive criticism
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Crying in the Kitchen Over Princeton
A conversation with Gregg Easterbrook on why the college-admissions process need not be a confidence-shattering ordeal
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The Science of the Palette
A conversation with Philip Ball, the author of Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color, about the intersection of art, science, and creativity
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What Makes W. Tick?
A conversation with historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser, who weighs in on George W. Bush–his management style, his mean streak, his religiosity, and his recovery from alcoholism
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Towards a New Urbanism
A conversation with the authors of Suburban Nation who tell Gore and Bush to listen up—the antidote to sprawl is good old-fashioned town planning
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The Joy of Style
A conversation with Virginia Postrel, the author of The Substance of Style, who argues that we should count ourselves lucky to be living in “the age of look and feel”
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It’s Not Easy Being Mean
A conversation with Mark Bowden, who talks about the strange life of Saddam Hussein and why his downfall is inevitable
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Pulling Back the Curtain
A conversation with Presidential historian Robert Dallek, who discusses new revelations about President Kennedy’s serious health problems and his efforts to keep them hidden
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The Story of a Magazine
A conversation with Robert Vare about why he loves magazine journalism, what makes The Atlantic distinctive, and the challenges of whittling down a “best of” collection of Atlantic writings
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In the Line of Fire
A conversation with Robert Kaplan, who joined U.S. Marines as they stormed Fallujah
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The Softer Side of Ashcroft
A conversation with Jeffrey Rosen, who argues that it’s not social conservatism but a quest for popular approval that drives John Ashcroft’s public life
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The Disease of the Modern Era
A conversation with Alston Chase, the author of Harvard and the Unabomber, who argues that we have much to fear from the forces that made Ted Kaczynski
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In Search of Mr. Right
A conversation with Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, the author of Why There Are No Good Men Left, who discusses the challenges facing today’s single women, and argues that the contemporary courtship system needs to be transformed
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All People Are Crazy
A conversation with P. J. O’Rourke on the Middle East, the universality of the absurd, and his beef with Mark Twain
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Inside the Ruins
A conversation with William Langewiesche, the author of “American Ground,” on life at the World Trade Center site after the towers fell
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The Life (and Death?) of Cloning
A conversation with Kyla Dunn about the state of therapeutic-cloning research and why it shouldn’t be banned
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The Asylum on the Hill
A conversation with Alex Beam, the author of Gracefully Insane, who probes the rich past of McLean Hospital, a mental institution renowned for ministering to prominent, creative, and aristocratic patients
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Back to School
A conversation with Elinor Burkett, who at age fifty-five became a member of the class of 2000 to report on high school through a journalist’s eyes
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The Hearts of Strangers
A conversation with Ruben Martinez, the author of Crossing Over, who describes the Mexican migrant experience, and reminds native-born Americans that they, too, were once strangers in a strange land
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A Tale of Two Murders
A conversation with Philip Gourevitch who, in A Cold Case, tells the story of three men from three very different moral universes, linked by a decades-old crime
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The Soul of a New Flying Machine
A conversation with James Fallows, the author of Free Flight, who argues that the next generation of small planes could usher in a new age of travel
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The Secret History
A conversation with Caroline Elkins, the author of Imperial Reckoning, about unearthing the sinister underside of Britain’s “civilizing” mission in Kenya
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Street Life
A conversation with Elijah Anderson, who talks about his new book, Code of the Street, and the importance of looking honestly at life in the inner city
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Drawing Without a Licence
A conversation with Edward Sorel, whose sharp-witted illustrations, instantly recognizable, have appeared in many of America’s best-known magazines
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Also see:
* Radcliffe Quarterly Book Reviews by Sage Stossel
* More Atlantic and Atlantic.com writings by Sage Stossel