New York magazine
Joan Didion's Greatest Two-Word Sentence
The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.
5 min |
January 3-16, 2022
New York magazine
Sean Thor Conroe – The Protégé
Sean Thor Conroe lost his fiercest advocate right before he published his first novel. Now he’s facing the hype without him.
9 min |
January 3-16, 2022
Mother Jones
Mixed Media Vanishing Point
More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?
9 min |
January/February 2022
Mother Jones
Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot
The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks
3 min |
January/February 2022
Mother Jones
Drinking Problem: Well Wishes
How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians
6 min |
January/February 2022
The Atlantic
Dangerous Prophecies
The assumption that civil war is inevitable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.
10 min |
January - February 2022
The Atlantic
John Milton's Hell
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, the poet was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
6 min |
January - February 2022
New York magazine
Stephen Sondheim – A Giant in the Sky
The measureless, omnipresent influence of Stephen Sondheim.
10 min |
December 6-19, 2021
Newsweek
God Save The Queen
It will be a mess when she’s gone
8 min |
December 03, 2021
The Atlantic
The End Of Trust
Suspicion is undermining the American economy.
7 min |
December 2021
The Atlantic
How Self-Reliant Was Emerson?
Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, emerged from an exceptionally tight-knit community.
10+ min |
December 2021
New York magazine
Peter Gelb – The Divo
All of Peter Gelb’s big problems running the Metropolitan Opera only got bigger during the pandemic.
10+ min |
November 8 - 21, 2021
New York magazine
Life After Nirvana
Dave Grohl is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a second time. He’s got a lot to reflect on.
10+ min |
October 25 - November 7, 2021
The Atlantic
It Didn't Have to Be This Way
A brilliant account of 30,000 years of change upends the bedrock assumptions about human history.
10+ min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
The Men Who Are Killing American's Newspapers
Inside Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms and damaging democracy
10+ min |
November 2021
Archaeology
When Isis Was Queen
At the ancient Egyptian temples of Philae, Nubians gave new life to a vanishing religious tradition
10+ min |
November/December 2021
New York magazine
Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can Change
Even if his new book suggests it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.
10 min |
October 11 - 24, 2021
New York magazine
Big Apples
The tree expert who turned the five boroughs into his personal orchard.
5 min |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Inked
Tess Holliday – Bombshell
Model and body positivity activist Tess Holliday channels her inner Pamela Anderson for this sexy shoot.
7 min |
November 2021
The Atlantic
Colson Whitehead Subverts the Crime Novel
In a country born of theft, everyone is an accomplice.
10 min |
October 2021
The Atlantic
The Unwritten Rules of Black TV
For decades, Black writers and producers have had to tell stories that fit what white executives deemed “authentic.” Can a new generation finally change that?
10+ min |
October 2021
New York magazine
1,960 minutes with …Isaac Fitzgerald
A pilgrimage with the most gregarious member of the literary internet.
6 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
New York magazine
And Not a Drop to Drink
A neo-noir set in an even thirstier Hollywood.
6 min |
August 2 - 15, 2021
New York magazine
Anthony Veasna – Infinite Self
Anthony Veasna so died unexpectedly last winter, before his debut short-story collection, Afterparties, was released. Everyone remembers him differently.
10+ min |
August 2 - 15, 2021
New York magazine
Katie Kitamura – The Interpreter
Katie Kitamura’s hypnotic new novel asks, What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?
5 min |
July 5-18, 2021
The Atlantic
Fiction – Bump
To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
The Weird Science of Edgar Allan Poe
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of empiricism.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
The World Kodak Made
The tech giant of the 20th century changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country— and built the city where it made its home. Now Kodak and Rochester are trying to reinvent themselves, and escape their history.
10+ min |
July - August 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris introduced by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
7 min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
The Power of Refusal
New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore women’s struggle to withdraw and create.
9 min |