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Christopher Schaberg

is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports and The End of Airports.

Essays & Reviews

Airplane Reading, Rarified

By Christopher SchabergMarch 4, 2016
A first-class in-flight magazine makes you feel like you belong in the sky
Essays & Reviews

Escape Velocity

By Christopher SchabergMarch 11, 2014
When we're used to traveling at the speed of data, what do passenger jets have left to offer?
Essays & Reviews

Hangar to Grave

By Christopher SchabergJanuary 23, 2013
As Boeing's Dreamliner plane of the future sits grounded, it receives a vision of aircraft past, present, and future. But will it learn its lessons in time?
Essays & Reviews

Missing Captain

By Christopher SchabergSeptember 13, 2012
Against the strident tones of unmanned-flight boosterism, the reservations of naysayers become just so much noise.
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