All stories published by The Awl on March 07, 2011

All Stories published by The Awl on March 07, 2011

The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

That Northwestern “Human Sexuality” Class Was The Best Course I Ever Took

by Joseph Bernstein

The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

An Excerpt From “Kapitoil”

by Teddy Wayne

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

Ross Douthat, the Fake Soft-Pedaler of the Culture Wars

Ross Douthat is at it again, with an incitement towards monogamy and fewer sexual partners as a path to happiness. (Yay happinesss, by the way!) First, there is history! “Yes, in 1950 as in 2011, most people didn’t go virgins to their…

Carrie Frye in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

The Weekend Odyssey of Wisconsin’s Wandering Democrats

Dave Bry in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

Prodigy Released From Prison, Heading To The Russian Tea Room

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

The New ‘Newsweek’

It’s here! It’s Tina Brown’s Newsweek! There it is, between the huge amount of word-free space and a 2/3rds of a page devoted…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

The American Influence in Iraq

“Security companies have started to use Iraqi guards because they work cheaply and know the area. These Iraqi security contractors now try to imitate Americans in their clothing, by wearing trousers with several outside pockets, half-length boots, dark sunglasses and…

Dave Bry in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

I Hope These Punk Rock Bands Are Not Influencing Oregon’s Farmer-Foodie Culture

Dave Bry in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

Someone Paid $4,675.75 To Ride On The New Japanese Bullet Train

Joshua Lars Weill in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

That’s Entertainment!

With the NCAA tournament starting next week, it seems like a good time to talk about why sports even matter. I’ve argued…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

Missing Kenny Rogers? Good News!

Hey, were you just the other night asking what is up with Kenny Rogers? This morning’s press release is here to help you with an answer: “Kenny Rogers’ historic music career celebrates a few more firsts when his new ‘The Love of God CD’ debuts exclusively at all Cracker…

Dave Bry in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

Acclaimed Novelist Republishes First Book

Awl contributor and author of The Metropolis Case (Crown, 2010), Matthew Gallaway certainly pulls no punches in reassessing What Shall Be I Be When I Grow Up?…, a book he wrote in 1979, when he was 11 years old, and recently republished in its entirety, on…

Dave Bry in The Awl

Mar 7, 2011

New MTV Style Blogger Improves World Instantly

“Right? I mean, let’s be all the way real. This is not cold fusion. We’re dealing with things like crackle nail polish, bangs, cocktail dresses, bags and shoes. Stuff that is nothing more than random articles of listless bric-a-brac… ZOMG I am just…

March 04, 2011

March 08, 2011