This issue of Cultural Studies will be a general issue edited from the US, and will provide the usual mix of scholarly discourse and innovative forms from a radical point of view.

Lawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway

1. The impossiblity of Best: Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical women's magazines of the 1980's Janice Winship 2. Consumerism reconsidered: buying and power Mica Nava 3. Popular music and postmodern theory Andrew Goodwin 4. A stairway to heaven or a highway to hell? Marcus Breen 5. Listening to a long conversation: an ethnographic approach to the study of information and communication technologies in the home Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch and David Morley 6. What are words worth?: interpreting children's talk about television David Buckingham