Tom Vanderbilt

Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: The View from Above · 31 March 2005

• Dry-Cleaned: ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ · 21 August 2003

  • The Manchurian Candidate: BFI Film Classics by Greil Marcus

• Summer Simmer on Chicago heatwaves · 22 August 2002

  • Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg

• An Even Deeper Bunker: secrets and spies · 7 March 2002

  • Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World by James Bamford
  • Total Surveillance: Investigating the Big Brother World of E-Spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV by John Parker

• It looks so charming on sweatshops · 29 October 1998

  • No Sweat edited by Andrew Ross

• Damp Souls · 3 October 1996

  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind by David Guterson

• Bugged · 6 June 1996

  • microserfs by Douglas Coupland

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