A Public Space: January 2008

News: January 2008

Issue 5 Is...

Roland Kelts on the streets of Japan; Samantha Hunt on Parris Island; Lucy Begg in Richard Linklater’s treehouse; Jervey Tervalon in Baltimore & Hollywood; Steve Featherstone in latrines; James Lasdun in a greenhouse; Jesmyn Ward on the road; Ernst Weiss on a ship full of rats; Leslie Jamison in Nicaragua; Peter Trachtenberg in sixth-century Rome; Wells Tower in a new house; Mario Bellatin in Times Square; Craig Morgan Teicher in the woods; Robyn Schiff in an inventor’s workshop; Zoe Strauss in El Paso; and more.

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And Elsewhere

I Made You a Tape: Ian Chillag breaks up with the Bryant Park Project.

A new idea for a bookstore: Zoomi. [via Design Observer]

Zoe Strauss's photo of the week

Etiqueta Negra, Peru's most talked-about magazine

Eugene Ostashevsky reading from his DJ Spinoza poems