Ian Scheffler

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

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....

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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 played a zippy right-hand riff before turning to face the camera. Snapping to the beat of an off-stage snare, Allen ...

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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. “Hello. I’m Jack. Allen tells me you’re very nice. Would you like to come down to ...

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The More Things Change: Jill Lepore's History of Life and Death

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