What We Can Still Learn from the Summer of 1915:
James Agee’s prose-poem is perhaps the best thing ever written about summer
by Pia de Jong and Landon Jones
Time.com
14 August 2015
(pdf)
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The Cardinals Lose Their Virtue
The Cardinals Lose Their Virtue
After a chaotic year, the FBI investigation of the beloved baseball team wounds the spirit of St. Louis
by Landon Jones
The Atlantic.com
June 17, 2015
Princeton resident Landon Jones receives Time Inc. 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award
Princeton Resident Landon Jones Receives Time Inc. 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award
Interview by Linda Arntzenius
Princeton Town Topics
April 15, 2015
(pdf)
How ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Could Start a Real Revolution
The unpunished deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have sparked protests reminiscent of the start of the Free Speech Movement.
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones
December 4, 2014
(pdf version)
Rudyard Kipling: At Large in the West
Montana the Magazine of Western History (pdf)
by Landon Jones
Autumn 2014
The Best Designed Magazine I Ever Saw
The best one I ever saw was Quality, published in 1987. The Editor was Landon Jones; the Assistant Managing Editor and Art Director of Magazine Development was Mary K. Baumann; Nora Sheehan was the Art Director, and Michele McNally (now photography director at the New York Times) was the Picture Editor. The full contents are here.
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by Robin Benson
Oct. 17, 2014
(pdf version)
Death and the Maiden: Meryl Streep’s Tribute to Philip Roth
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones & Pia de Jong
September 23, 2014
(pdf version)
Another St. Louis Summer
The New Yorker
by Landon Jones
August 22, 2014
Echoes of Michael Brown’s Death in St. Louis’s Racially Charged Past
The shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old by police on Saturday is part of a long history of violence toward African Americans in the Midwestern city.
The Atlantic
by Landon Jones
August 12, 2014
The Triumph of Soccer Moms
Why Americans have gone nuts for the World Cup.
The Wall Street Journal
June 30, 2014
by Landon Jones
(pdf version)
Loaded language: The gun metaphors that pervade our everyday slang
The Washington Post
by Landon Jones
April 18, 2014
Too Many Celebrities, Not Enough Heroes
The Washington Post
by Landon Jones
February 28, 2014
Why Lou Reed Can’t Die
Today, if we want to praise a new band, we call it “the New Velvet Underground.” Here’s why.
Wall Street Journal (pdf)
by Landon Jones
November 30, 2013
Confessions of a Rodeo Rookie
The barrel race was going so well. Then I decided to wave my cowboy hat.
The Wall Street Journal
by Landon Jones
April 29, 2013
(pdf version)
Millie and Me
Millie and Me
I learned that mega-fires like Millie will become increasingly common in the years to come, as climate-change clears our forests.
by Landon Y. Jones
Huffington Post
September 16, 2012 (pdf)
Why That Music Makes Us Smile
AARP Bulletin
by Landon Jones
February 2, 2009
Babe in the Woods: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unlikely Summer in Montana
Montana the Magazine of Western History (pdf)
by Landon Jones
Autumn 2007
The First Baby Boomer Turns 60
Swinging 60s? The First Baby Boomer looks back – and forward – on the eve of a milestone.
Smithsonian (pdf)
by Landon Jones
January 2006
Tribal Fever
Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late.
Smithsonian Magazine
by Landon Jones
May 2005
A Great Expedition: An explorer’s biographer makes his own wondrous discoveries
A Great Expedition: An explorer’s biographer makes his own wondrous discoveries
by Landon Y. Jones
Princeton Alumni Weekly
June 9, 2004
(pdf version)