Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years until accepting a full-time faculty position at The King's College. She is also associate editor of Comment. Her work on pop culture, philosophy, politics, and fine art has appears in a number of publications, including Paste, Christianity Today, Prism, Patrol, WORLD, and Relevant.
Alissa harbors a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, farmer’s markets, and food policy; reads a lot of books; drinks a lot of herbal tea; and watches movies with her husband, Tom, in their tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.
From The Guardian: Does the essay live up to its promise? Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don’t know where to put them. It’s a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Drabble, Chinua Achebe and [...]
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From The American Scholar: Writing About Writers. She has never written from outlines, but she would sometimes think as much as 30 pages ahead. Not this time. “It didn’t feel like writing,” she said. “Writing to me is really hard. And I just sort of sat down and wrote this – or typed it.” She [...]
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From the New York Times: Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists. Seeing the clean, crisp shapes of those letters and numbers at station entrances, on the platforms and inside the trains is always a treat, at least it is until I spot the “Do not lean …” sign on the train doors. Ugh! There’s something [...]
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From Foreign Policy: Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is going to revolutionize the world. Indeed, television, that 1920s technology so many of us take for granted, is still coming to tens of millions with a transformative power — for the good — that the world is only now coming to understand. The potential scope [...]
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From the Telegraph: The secret behind Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. Now scientists claim to have come up with an answer to her changing moods – our eyes are sending mixed signals to the brain. They believe Mona Lisa’s smile depends on what cells in the retina pick up the image and what channel the image [...]
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From the New York Times: Pushing Fresh Produce Instead of Cookies at the Corner Market. Until recently, small corner grocery stores were seen by public health officials as part of theobesity problem. The stores, predominantly family-owned, offered convenience, but the accent was on snack chips, canned goods and sugary drinks. Now, because they are often [...]
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From the Wall Street Journal: The Art World Goes Local. At the height of the boom, art collectors scrambled to acquire works by top artists from rising markets including China, Russia, India and the Middle East. A serious approach to collecting meant trips to London, New York and Hong Kong several times a year for [...]
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor. Unlike the independent highbrows and unself-conscious lowbrows, middlebrows, it seems, are so invested in “getting on in life” that they do not really like anything unless it has been approved by their betters. For Woolf and her heirs, middlebrows are inauthentic, meretricious bounders, slaves [...]
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Millenial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions. Figuring out young people has always been a chore, but today it’s also an industry. Colleges and corporations pay experts big bucks to help them understand the fresh-faced hordes that pack the nation’s dorms [...]
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