He gave interviews only to literary magazines that few people read.

ECONOMIST: William Gaddis

The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

One is that magazines, big and small, are taking over some of the cultural and literary ground vacated by newspapers in their seemingly unstoppable evaporation.

NEWYORKER: Reality Effects