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A cultural tradition of newspapers. *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 12, no. 2 (2018). Newspapers may not be the first cultural output that springs to mind in connection with Vienna, a city best known for its artistic and intellectual accomplishments over the last century. Instead, … Read more
From the Archives
IALJS Newsletter March 2021
Below each issue of the IALJS newsletter are commendable examples of literary journalism, some of which may be mentioned in the issue.
- March 2021 Issue (Vol. 15, No. 1)
- October 2020 Issue (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Spring 2020 Issue (Vol. 14, No. 1)
- Fall 2019 Issue (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Spring 2019 Issue (Vol. 13, No. 1)
- Fall 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- Summer 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 3)
- Spring 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- Winter 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 1)
- Fall 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Brooks’s “Mis-Educating the Young“
- Rosenbaum’s “Magazines, Bring Back the Write-Around!“
- Summer 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 3)
- Roiland’s “It Was Like Nothing Else“
- Huber’s “Being White in Philly“
- Spring 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- Roiland’s “A Shot in the Arm“
- Packer’s “The Lesson of Tal Afar“
- Glasser’s “Covering Politics in Post-Truth America“
- Winter 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 1)
- Friend’s “Adding a Zero“
- Wolfe’s “A City Built of Clay“
- Fall 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 4)
- Heller’s “The Big Uneasy“
- Wolfe’s “The Origins of Speech“
- Summer 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Cassidy’s “Mastering the Machine“
- Mendelson’s “In the Depths of the Digital Age“
- Spring 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Kirn’s “Lost in the Meritocracy“
- Halpern’s “In the Depths of the Net“
- Winter 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 1)
- Bellafante’s “Reviving the Village Voice“
- Tomasky’s “Trump“
- Fall 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- Heller’s “The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan“
- Malcolm’s “The Master Writer of the City“
- Summer 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 3)
- Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine“
- Trillin’s “Covering the Cops“
- Spring 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- DeFord’s “All America, All the Way“
- Beard’s “Diary“
- Winter 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 1)
- Cooper’s “Ebola’s Cultural Casualty“
- Mead’s “The Troll Slayer“
- Fall 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 4)
- Shorto’s “How to Think Like the Dutch“
- Berryhill’s “Max Soffar’s Last Appeal“
- Summer 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Friend’s “Thicker Than Water“
- Hess’ “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet“
- Spring 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 2)
- Fish’s “Scholarship and Politics“
- Klein’s “Baghdad Year Zero“
- Winter 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- Purdum’s “It Came From Wasilla“
- Tynan’s “Salto Mortale“
- Yang’s “Paper Tigers“
- Fall 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 4)
- Summer 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 3)
- Packer’s “The Broken Contract“
- Kirns’ “Confessions of an Ex-Mormon“
- Cunningham’s “Cause and Effect“
- Spring 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Colloff’s “The Innocent Man, Part I“
- Colloff’s “The Innocent Man, Part II“
- Remnick’s “Bruce Springsteen at 62“
- Winter 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 1)
- Gladwell’s “The Order of Things“
- Macfarquahar’s “Outside Agitator“
- Fall 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- Campbell’s “Iran’s Quiet Revolution“
- Freeland’s “The Rise of the New Global Elite“
- Filkins’ “The Deep State“
- Summer 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Hessler’s “Dr. Don“
- Boyers’ “A Beauty“
- Franzen’s “Farther Away“
- Spring 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- Lightman’s “The Accidental Universe“
- Seabrook’s “Crunch“
- Wang’s “Paper Tigers“
- Winter 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- Pressler’s “It’s Good to Be Michael Lewis“
- Hagen’s “Tweet Science“
- Williams’ “Ten Things to Do Before This Article Is Finished“
- Fall 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- Hitchens’ “Topic of Cancer“
- McPhee’s “Spin Right and Shoot Left“
- Rosenbaum’s “Shakespeare in Rewrite“
- Wallace’s “Federer as Religious Experience“
- Summer 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Heffernan’s “Anchor Woman“
- Packer’s “Dickens in Lagos“
- Rice’s “Miss Grundy Was Fired Today“
- Spring 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- McPhee’s “Checkpoints“
- Rosenbaum’s “Stumpy Versus Lucille“
- Winter 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Mamet’s “Driver’s Ed“
- Malcolm’s “Iphegenia in Forest Hills“
- Fall 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 4)
- Burns’ “What Cats Know About War“
- Hastings’ “The Runaway General“
- The Economist‘s “Pushtunwali: Honour Among Them“
- Summer 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- Dickens’ “On Duty With Inspector Fields“
- Chivers’ “When Afghans Seek Medical Aid, Tough Choices for U.S.“
- Spring 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- Williams’ “Finding Dolly Freed“
- Paterniti’s “Eating Jack Hooker’s Cow“
- Winter 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- DeGregory’s “The Girl in the Window“
- Fall 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 4)
- Crane’s “In the Depths of a Coal Mine“
- Grunberg’s “On Armies, War and an Aging Israel“
- Jones’ “The Things That Carried Him“
- Junod’s “The Loved Ones“
- Konigsberg’s “Prairie Fire“
- Summer 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 3)
- Buford’s “Carnal Knowledge“
- French’s “Angels & Demons“
- Malan’s “AIDS in Africa“
- Wright’s “The Killer Elite“
- Spring 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 2)
- Legge’s “Clubland“
- Winter 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 1)
- Boo’s “Swamp Nurse“
- Tosches’ “If You Knew Sushi“
- Fall 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 4)
- Raghavan’s “Anguish in the Ruins of Mutanabi Street“
- Summer 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 3)
- Blais’ “In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle“
- Preston’s “The Mountains of Pi“
- Spring 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 2)
- Paterniti’s “Driving Mr. Albert“
- Winter 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 1)
- Sheeler’s “Final Salute“
- Tietz’s “The Boy Who Loved Transit“
- Fall 2007 Issue (Vol. 1, No. 2)
- Hull’s “A Better Life“
- Boo’s “The Marriage Cure“
- Summer 2007 Issue (Vol. 1, No. 1)
- Anderson’s “Prisoners of War“
- Langewiesche’s “City of Fear“
- Paterniti’s “The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy“