Ian Scheffler recently graduated from Columbia University, where he co-edited the Columbia Review. His writing has also appeared on newyorker.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Perfectly Natural: Science and Sustainability
Ian Scheffler juxtaposes Donald E. Canfield’s Oxygen with Bill McKibben’s Oil and Honey to explain the forever mutability of nature....

Speak, Jack: Joyce Johnson’s New Biography of Jack Kerouac
ON NOVEMBER 16, 1959, Steve Allen began his eponymous show at the piano. Wearing a gunmetal suit and dark glasses, he ...

Taking the Measure of Jack Kerouac: A Conversation with Joyce Johnson
ONE NIGHT IN 1957, Joyce Johnson was handed the phone in the kitchen of a friend’s Yorkville tenement. “...

The More Things Change: Jill Lepore's History of Life and Death
ADOLESCENCE WAS BORN a little more than a century ago, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The term has a long history — “...
