Joy in the Palm of Your Hand: A Hymn of Praise to the iPod

iPod, Therefore I Am: Thinking Inside the White Box, by Dylan Jones. Bloomsbury, 288 pages, $14.95.

I don’t do well in crowds. Never have. Erratic movements jar my psyche, and so I’ve designated large swaths of Manhattan as no-go zones, hotbeds of wayward tourists and frantic consumers: Fairway on Sunday afternoons. Times Square on a Read More

Off the Record

Since the forced retirement of longtime GQ editor Art Cooper on Feb. 24, many insiders have all but handed the job to his dashing young counterpart across the Atlantic, Dylan Jones. Mr. Jones, the 41-year-old editor of British GQ , is considered the savior of the cross-the-pond edition, taking it over in 1999 and infusing Read More