Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of Personal Stereo, a cultural history of the Walkman.

How has Religious Experience Changed in a Secular Age?

How has Religious Experience Changed in a Secular Age? How has Religious Experience Changed in a Secular Age?

A new book by Tara Isabella Burton explores how people are infusing new cultural forms with quasi-religious meaning.

Dec 15, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated

Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated

Taking drugs and recovering are not always as incompatible as they seem.

Jun 5, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity

Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity

For the great urbanist and social critic, the planning of cities was always an ad hoc affair.

Feb 3, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

The Annie Dillard Show

The Annie Dillard Show The Annie Dillard Show

In felicitous language, she enables us to see the world afresh. But there is always a distance, a sense of performance.

May 18, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Speed Kills

Speed Kills Speed Kills

Has digital technology destroyed leisure?

Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Endgame?

Endgame? Endgame?

How the rhetoric of ecoetiquette muddies writing about global warming.

Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Bill McKibben: The Making of an Environmentalist Bill McKibben: The Making of an Environmentalist

Two new anthologies explore the virtues and occasional shortcomings of Bill McKibben's quest for environmental salvation.

Jul 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

ART in America ART in America

Two new books explore the possibilities and ethical complications of assisted reproductive technology.

Nov 8, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Sanger vs. Sanger Sanger vs. Sanger

Demonized for decades by ideological foes on the right and left, the mother of the birth control movement is finally able to speak for herself.

Jul 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Talking With Anthony Papa Talking With Anthony Papa

He is using his art to publicize the injustice of the drug laws that put him away.

Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

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