Lauren Kirchner

Jill Lepore’s brief history of office life, appearing in last week’s The New Yorker on the occasion of Nikil Saval’s new book Cubed, takes the reader on a textual tour of “The Office Through the Ages.” Her tour begins with a mid-nineteenth-century ...

Yesterday a small nonprofit group called Transparify released its survey of major research organizations around the world, including its ranking of how transparent the organizations are about where they get their money. Some of the biggest, and undeniably most influential, think ...

This weekend’s New York Times Magazine features a very thorough and absorbing piece by Jesse Eisinger (in a collaboration between the Times and ProPublica), “Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis.” It starts with the story of Kareem ...

This past weekend, the annual convention of the National Rifle Association was held in Indianapolis, a panoply of fearmongering speeches and fearsome weapons for sale—otherwise known as “9 acres of guns and gear.” This year’s convention featured Sarah ...

Here is the definitive list of the ten best quotes and excerpts from this New York Times article about the modern-day equivalent of foot-binding, in which women elect to have various types of surgery on their feet in order to fit into ludicrous shoes: Shoe by Christian ...

A fairly ridiculous study has found that “sporting the latest tech toy can make you seem more like a leader.” For a paper entitled “Looking Innovative: Exploring the Role of Impression Management in High-Tech Product Adoption and Use” (#innovative), which ...

The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize were announced on Monday afternoon. Aside from the biggest news items, awards for coverage of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations and of the Boston Marathon bombings, awards were given to Donna Tartt, for her novel The ...

This coming Sunday marks the return of AMC’s Mad Men, and advance reviews and think-pieces are billowing across the Internet like so much cigarette smoke through a poorly-ventilated ad agency office. (Here’s our two cents on AMC’s design choice for its season ...