Meeting: Saturday, March 22, 2008

Secret Skin

Michael Chabon

What superheroes shouldn’t wear.

Two for One

Judith Thurman

The marriage of Isabel and Ruben Toledo.

Tech Stuff

Patricia Marx

The new gadgets in your life.

James Surowiecki on microfinance.

The Real Work

Adam Gopnik

Modern magic and the meaning of life.

The plays of Sarah Ruhl.

John Lahr

“John Adams.”

Jill Lepore

Meeting: Saturday, March 8, 2008

Say It All in Six Words

Lizzie Widdiecombe

http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Q. The "six words" contest has many clever entries. Favorites? What's your opinion on the composition of this TotT piece?

Big Foot

Michael Specter

The complexities of going green.

Q. Will the market provide enough motivation to reduce carbon footprints? Is oversight needed? Why or why not?

East Side Story

Larissa MacFarquhar

Louis Auchincloss’s class chronicle.

Q. Is Auchincloss naive or enlightened? What makes him an interesting subject?

The Coen brothers’ movies.

David Denby

Q. Do you agree with Denby's rankings of the Coen's work? What makes their movies good or bad for you?

Our free-spending ways.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Q. So humans are irrational. Should we be rational? Why should we care?

Girl Stuff
Have Gun
by Lizzie Widdicombe

Q. Does the color of your taser matter? What's wrong with this picture?

The Color of Blood

Calvin Trillin

Racial tensions and a killing in the suburbs.

Q. If you were on the jury, would you find White guilty? What evidence would change your mind?

Numbers Guy

Jim Holt

Are our brains wired for math?

Q. What benefit is there to knowing how our brains deal with math? Will it change the way it is taught?

From the Archives:
Fiction
The Bear Came Over the Mountain

by Alice Munro
December 27, 1999

Q. Is this a sad story?