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 Inside Higher Ed: The Accidental Celebrity. But the notes kept coming, increasing in their fervor and frequency, until I could no longer deny it: I was receiving “fan mail.” Some writers called me courageous. Others hailed me as a visionary. A few suggested that I was predestined to play a pivotal role in the [...]
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From Time: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food. Horror stories about the food industry have long been with us – ever since 1906, when Upton Sinclair’s landmark novel The Jungle told some ugly truths about how America produces its meat. In the century that followed, things got much better, and in some [...]
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From the New York Times: Digital Creations Come of Age. The British artist David Hockney caused a small sensation in May by creating “paintings” on his iPhone, using a special application to draw with his fingers on the screen – a consecration, if one was needed, of digital technology as a medium of contemporary art. [...]
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Rick Steves, Travel Guru By Brian Watkins Rick Steves courteously, politely, and awkwardly explores Europe, rendering the Ugly American a nerd. Dreams, Chickpeas, and Cold Souls: An Interview with Sophie Barthes By Sarah Hanssen Writer/director Sophie Barthes talks about her feature film, Cold Souls, starring Paul Giametti as an actor who is burdened by the [...]
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From the New York Times: Facebook Exodus. The exodus is not evident from the site’s overall numbers. According to comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the United States in July. But while people are still joining Facebook and compulsively visiting the site, a small but noticeable group are fleeing – some of them [...]
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From The Economist: Twentieth-century man. “Nothing is more hateful to me than photography sugar-coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects,” wrote August Sander in 1927. “Let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age.” Like a lepidopterist, Sander captured and classified his fellow Germans, arranging them by profession, social class and family relationships. [...]
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From the New York Times: The Future of Reading. The approach Ms. McNeill uses, in which students choose their own books, discuss them individually with their teacher and one another, and keep detailed journals about their reading, is part of a movement to revolutionize the way literature is taught in America’s schools. While there is [...]
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From the Wall Street Journal: Love Letter to Philadelphia. “I saw this as an opportunity to reclaim the space on these rooftops and reexamine graffiti,” said Mr. Powers, who grew up in West Philadelphia but now lives in New York. A former graffiti artist, Mr. Powers used the neighborhood as his illegal canvas as a [...]
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Happy 1st Birthday to Us! Our first issue was published on August 29, 2008. Here’s to many more! Whither the Music Mag? By John Stoehr What does the much-hyped death of print journalism mean for the music magazine? An Interstate Book Club By Jenni Simmons and Rebecca Tirrell Talbot Two staff writers talk about using [...]
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From The Smart Set: The Return of the Epigram. Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least encouraging) a short attention span, forced brevity is not entirely a bad thing. Humans have been perfecting the art of keeping it short since the beginning of literature. I, for one, am starting to see Twitter [...]
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