Articles by Darryl Campbell

Get Into the Kitchen: An Interview with Mark Bittman

Darryl Campbell talks to Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and author of How to Cook Everything and the recently released The Food Matters Cookbook.

En Route: The Great American Bus Tour

Instead of flying home for winter break, Darryl Campbell opts to take a Greyhound. This is, not surprisingly, a terrible decision.

En Route: Up, Up and Away

In his new series about the ways we travel, Darryl Campbell talks about the modern disenchantment with airplanes.

Tony and Me

Darryl Campbell reflects on the recent death of historian Tony Judt.

Don Draper and the “Mad Men” Moment

Darryl Campbell explains why we are all in love with Don Draper, despite his glaring flaws.

Highway Hypnosis and Other Driving Hazards

On his five-day road trip from Indiana to Washington, Darryl Campbell turns into a robot. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Twilight of the Gods (of Film Criticism)

In a landscape where newspapers are dropping movie critics left and right, Darryl Campbell considers film criticism’s past, present, and future.

Zombie Keynes in the 21st Century

Darryl Campbell explains why John Maynard Keynes would have loved the hook-up culture, BLDGBLOG, and Lady Gaga.

Keywords: Nostalgia

Darryl Campbell observes that the past is a dangerously easy thing to embrace.

“Asian Flair”: A Case Study of the Culinary Middlebrow

Darryl Campbell notices a lazy linguistic trend propagated by Food Network hosts, dieting experts, and Coolio.

The Comment-Box Poets of The New York Times

There’s poetry in everything, including the user comments of NYTimes.com’s most popular blogs. Darryl Campbell investigates the web’s unlikely poetry community.

In Memoriam J.D.S.

J.D. Salinger’s reputation as a recluse has, in many ways, overshadowed his importance as an author. Darryl Campbell has a problem with this.