Utne Reader 1998 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Accumulation by design.(a graphic designer's Brooklyn apartment) | General interest | Alexandra Ringe |
A question of perspective.(reminiscing the future with old age) | General interest | Susan Griffin |
Caught in the crossfire: will the war on reproductive rights ever end? | General interest | Cynthia Gorney |
Confessions of a health food junkie.(includes related article on organic foods) | General interest | Steven Bratman |
Counter culture: how one Alaskan fishing community is saving the salmon. | General interest | Bill McKibben |
Crackdown on kids. (juvenile delinquency) | General interest | Leoro Broydo |
Culture shock in Kathmandu.(Nepal) | General interest | Sushma Joshi |
Disordered brilliance: we can curb the dark side of genius, but should we? | General interest | Clifford Pickover |
Drag net: from glen to glenda and back again ... is it possible? (gender roles in cyberspace) | General interest | Sherry Turkle |
Extrasensory etiquette.(intuition) | General interest | Belleruth Naparstek |
Food fight.(analysis of government's organic standards for agricultural products)(Column) | General interest | Jon Entine |
Girl picnic.(excerpt from "A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World") | General interest | Elissa Nelson |
God in a labcoat: can we control the biotech revolution before it controls us? | General interest | Jeremy Rifkin |
Gourmet love: aphrodisiacs are the bridge between gluttony and lust. | General interest | Isabel Allende |
Heart without a country. | General interest | Luc Sante |
Heavy metal garden: how a field of weeds can cleanse a toxic land.(Column) | General interest | Amy Adams |
Heckling Ted Hughes: a young writer pays awkward tribute to her literary heroes. | General interest | Leslie Brody |
Hot potato wisdom: tips from my straight-shooting grandma, Lillie Lulkin.(attitudes towards relationships, grief, and marriage) | General interest | Alice Hoffman |
How I got my DIY degree ... at the University of Planet Earth.(do-it-yourself) | General interest | William Upski Wimsatt |
How poems happen: and why, like dust bunnies, they're easy to sweep away. | General interest | Barbara Kingsolver |
How to score a great pot.(securing genuine marijuana) | General interest | Evan Keliher |
Immaculate conception?: the Catholic Church is waging a stealth campaign to control your body. | General interest | Melanie Conklin |
Inside skinhead. (interview with a former neo-Nazi on his experience as a racist) | General interest | |
Iron turkey: how I found my manhood in the Texas wild. (wilderness adventure) | General interest | Ray Isle |
Ishmael Reed. (author)(Interview) | General interest | Nedia Diet |
Jim Hightower.("Chat & Chew" talk show host)(Interview) | General interest | Helen Cordes |
Justice life.(formation of the International Criminal Court) | General interest | David Rieff |
Land of illusions: if you want to see how free-market gurus envision our future, look at Chile today. | General interest | Marc Cooper |
Land of ire: embracing the shadow of the Emerald Isle.(appreciation of Ireland's people and culture) | General interest | Andrea Munro |
Leonard Koan.(rock artist Leonard Cohen) | General interest | Pico Iyer |
Let's go eco (or maybe not): what it really takes to be a sustainable tourist. | General interest | Susan Wheat |
Media-junkie paradise.(alternative press libraries) | General interest | Chris Dodge |
Meet Dr. Hair: he reveals the roots of mop psychology. (hair pundit Steven Zdatny) | General interest | Liesl Schillinger |
Mr. Gotti's neighborhood.(living in a neighborhood of mobsters) | General interest | Alec Wilkinson |
My poems are my children: why I'll never have a baby.(an author's aversion towards marriage) | General interest | Rachel Wetzsteon |
My son, the militarist: for two people so different, life is an uncertain truce. | General interest | Janet Burroway |
Now hear this: shhhhhhhhhh: are we turning a deaf ear to noise pollution? | General interest | Jeannette Batz |
Ocean solitaire.(analysis of fishing and its effect on the environment) | General interest | Bill McKibben |
"Only girls wear barrettes:" on the playground, mom and dad don't count. Kids rule. (gender identity in children) | General interest | Judith Rich Harris |
On the wings of an eagle.(resignation of "Utne Reader's" editor)(Editorial) | General interest | Hugh Delehanty |
Poly sex for beginners.(polygamous relations) | General interest | Elizabeth Larsen |
Pomosexual pioneer: what good is theory when you're not getting laid? (lesbian behavior) | General interest | Katherine Raymond |
Raiders of the lost art: in Italy, robbing tombs is a cottage industry.(Interview) | General interest | Giovanni Lattanzi |
Rock en Espanol.(Latin American rock group Mana) | General interest | Keith Goetzman |
Romancing the Net: big media is creating a monster that will someday swallow it whole.(advertising on the Internet) | General interest | Randall Rothenberg |
Saving place: these writers helped a city find its soul. (Spartanburg, South Carolina)(includes related article) | General interest | Betsy Wakefield Teter, Rosa Shand |
Show us the money: how to use the biggest windfall in history to build a society that makes sense. (democratic foundations as a tool for social justice and wealth distribution) | General interest | Mark Dowie |
Snacks for brainiacs.(cognition enhancement foods) | General interest | Elizabeth Somer |
Still life in the absinthe: the tripple of choice for fin-de-siecle decadents tempts a new generation.(Column) | General interest | John Moore |
Swoosh! (The Perfect Icon for an Imperfect Postliterate World). (Nike's Swoosh image) | General interest | Read Mercer Schuchardt |
Take that, advice Nazis: the antidote for women's mag-itis. | General interest | Susan Jane Gilman |
Terminal irony: escaping the Seinfeld perplex. | General interest | Jedediah Purdy |
The $100 Christmas.(budget holiday shopping tips) | General interest | Bruce Strachan |
The art of genius: eight ways to think like Einstein. | General interest | Michael Michelko |
The Codex conspiracy. (United Nation's Codex Alimentarius Commission aims to protect the interests of big drug firms) | General interest | Nathaniel Mead |
The curse of literacy. (imbalance of power between men and women) | General interest | Leonard Shlain |
The Derriere Garde.(the emergence of natural classicism) | General interest | John Michael Cummings |
The digital amazon. (profile on Digital Amazon founder Stephanie Brail) | General interest | Leslie Gornstein |
The divine revolution: lifting the Iron Curtain of the spirit. | General interest | Vaclav Havel |
The eagle dies on Friday: want to fix Social Security? Cut the payroll tax. | General interest | David Brauer |
The endangered herbs. (international market for medicinal herbs may cause their extinction) | General interest | Nathaniel Mead |
The gender blur: where does biology end and society take over? | General interest | Deborah Blum |
The gray flannel soul: the absurdity of seeking God on the job.(relation between employment and religion)(Column) | General interest | Martha Nichols |
The green power hustle.(deregulation of the power industry) | General interest | Jon Entine |
The handmade solution.(the role of the local crafts industry in economic development) | General interest | Craig Cox |
The hermit king.(a brief encounter with a monk named Monk Sava) | General interest | Christopher Hope |
The Hollywood experiment.(LSD experiments on celebrities) | General interest | John Whalen |
The human factor. | General interest | Water Truett Anderson |
The incredible shrinking liberal media.(political leanings of journalists) | General interest | |
The joy of danger: finding a life flirting with death. | General interest | Sebastian Junger |
The killer mosquitos: just in time for summer - malaria is headed north. | General interest | Minna Morse |
The last abortion: how science could silence the debate. | General interest | Elinor Burkett |
The laws of power: bootlicking, double-dealing, back-stabbing, ass-kissing, and 44 other ways to find fulfillment. | General interest | Robert Greene, Joost Elffers |
The misery merchants. | General interest | Craig Cox |
The mulatto millennium: where will a former black girl fit? | General interest | Danzy Senna |
The multicultural mistake.(the difficulty of defining cultural differences) | General interest | Kwame Anthony Appiah |
The New Dixie Manifesto.(asserting rights and recognition of Southern States) | General interest | Diane Roberts |
The new eco moooovement: despite its foul reputation, cattle grazing could help save the American prairie. | General interest | Elaine Robbins |
The New Irish uprising. (rising popularity of Irish music) | General interest | Keith Goetzman |
The nose of love.(the role of the sense of smell in mate selection) | General interest | Elizabeth Larsen |
The one-watt wonder.(Stephen Dunifer and his microbroadcasting movement) | General interest | Will Hermes |
The possessed: in the midst of Indonesia's turmoil, ethnic warriors unleash the gruesome magic of their ancestors. (includes related article) | General interest | Jay Walljasper, Richard Lloyd Parry |
The real Japan.(vacationing in Japan) | General interest | Meredith McKinney |
The secret life of hogs.(a philosophical look at swine)(excerpt from "The Hog Book") | General interest | William Hedgepeth |
The secret that wasn't: coming out to Dad was almost too simple. (insights into the experience of coming out with one's gay inclinations) | General interest | Daniel Drennan |
The source of real power. (principles of the book Tao Te Ching) | General interest | James A. Autry, Stephen Mitchell |
The stoned age: in which Carlos Castaneda meets Timothy Leary and tunes out. (authors) | General interest | Margaret Runyan Castaneda |
The stuff of life: do you own it or does it own you?(consumerism and materialism) | General interest | Bruce Strachan |
The way of the hypocrite: how to make adultery work - for all of us.(Column) | General interest | Miriam Karmel Feldman |
The world of waking dreams.(includes related article on orthodox anthropology) | General interest | Michael Brennan |
The zapping of America.(health risk of telecommunication transmitters) | General interest | Kevin Davis |
Totally x'ed out: what's really happening to the generation on the edge? (Generation X members' role in the economy) | General interest | Joshua Glenn |
To work is human, to slack divine: why the best jobs are mindless. | General interest | Hal Niedviecki |
Unbearable darkness? (Why Negative Emotions Are Good for You) | General interest | Miriam Karmel Feldman |
Unmasking the Unabomber.(interview with David Kaczynski wife, Linda Patrick)(Interview) | General interest | Ellen Becker, Tom McPheeters |
Up close and transpersonal with Ken Wilber. | General interest | Mark Matousek |
Waiting for Amelia: could the beloved aviatrix still be alive.(Amelia Earhart and her influence on people) | General interest | Laura Wexler |
Why I write: six acclaimed writers reveal their primal, intimate, and sometimes mercenary motives for putting pen to paper.(excerpt from "Why I Write") | General interest | Elizabeth Gilbert, Pat Conroy, Mark Jacobson, Barry Hannah, Mary Gaitskill, Jayne Anne Phillips |
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