Art & Literature

China’s rapidly developing economy—and resulting consumer culture—is re-popularizing one of the country’s oldest folk arts: “Like most things in China, where there is profit, there is counterfeit.

For tall, iconic buildings, height is often a revered quality, but how is it measured and what is the impact?

In January 2014, The Museum of Modern Art presented its design plans for its latest growth spurt along 53rd St. in New York City. The hue and cry that has ensued since the presentation has been significant for not only questioning the museum's obligation to artistic practice, but, more importantly, its responsibility to the cultural life of the city.

Editor's Note: Gordon Haber explores a controversial topic in academia today — the use of non-tenured, adjunct faculty. He recently published a novella, "Adjunctivitis", detailing the misadventures of one...

In May 1862, The Atlantic Monthly posthumously published Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay, “Walking.” Thoreau’s central premise seemed that humanity should experience nature “as an inhabitant”...

Six months ago, Paul Salopek walked out of Herto Bouri, Ethiopia, heading northwest across the parched expanse of the Great Rift Valley.  He will be walking for the next seven years. Salopek, a Pulitzer...

A Hippo Reads Exclusive Reprint, Courtesy of Prairie Schooner (winner of The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award) An Essay and Fable On the coldest day of the year, in St. Petersburg, Russia, as my...