The Curious Case of the Wayward Purse
by Landon Y. Jones
US 1 NEWSPAPER
9 March 2016
(pdf)
Category Archives: Articles
Here’s How to See #OscarsSoWhite in Real Time on Sunday
Here’s How to See #OscarsSoWhite in Real Time on Sunday
by Landon Jones
Time.com
26 Feb 2016
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How “Baby Boomers” Took Over the World
How “Baby Boomers” Took Over the World
by Landon Y. Jones
Washington Post Outlook
8 November 2015
(pdf version)
What We Can Still Learn from the Summer of 1915
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
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On the Range Where the College Cowboys No Longer Play
by Landon Jones
Wall Street Journal
15 August 2015
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The Incredible True Story behind “Amazing Grace”
The Incredible True Story behind ‘Amazing Grace”
Its author was an atheist slave trader who found salvation
by Landon Jones
Time.com, 28 June 2015
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
Tiger of the Week: Writer and Editor Landon Y. Jones ’66
Tiger of the Week: Writer and Editor Landon Y. Jones ’66
by Brian Geiger
Princeton Alumni Weekly
April 22, 2015
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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)
Smithsonian Associates seminar on Lewis and Clark
Join the Smithsonian Associates for Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the American West, the first 
of several programs on great expeditions and their leaders. Landon Jones introduces us to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on April 30, 2015 at 6:45 pm.
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
April 30, 2015
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.
The Best Designed Magazine I Ever Saw – Grids – SPD.ORG – GridsSPD.ORG
by Robin Benson
Oct. 17, 2014
(pdf version)
Meet the Clinton Baby’s Other Grandparents
Or, as they’re called in Yiddish, the ‘machatonim’
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones
Sept. 30, 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