Back Issues It's time to follow Annie Choi's example and revive the lost art of the open letter to readers, says Steve Parnell

摘要

The marginalia of journals, letters pages in particular, are often more revealing than the features and columns, and expose the real vitality of the times. Just like Columbo's 'one more thing' moment, they are the point at which the viewer sees whodunnit. As one Adrian Jones of London wrote in the Architectural Design of February 1972: 'Sir, your magazine is becoming a big internal postal system going from Peter Cook to Warren Chalk to Cedric Price to God knows who else.'