New York magazine
Anything for You
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, artificial intelligence meets real sacrifice.
5 min |
March 15 - 28, 2021
Russian Life
Sidewalk Art
The lamentable state of Russia’s roads and sidewalks has long been fertile ground for memes and jokes. Irkutsk artist Ivan Kravchenko decided to turn the problem into an art project. For over two years he has been patching ruts in city sidewalks with colorful ceramic tiles.
6 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
Sputnik V: First Place or Long Shot?
The Russian vaccine seems top-notch, but low public trust and a botched rollout remain formidable barriers to returning to normalcy.
5 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
the Valley of the Dead
On the Trail of a Russian Movie Star
10+ min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
Food & Drink
Food & Drink
4 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
POLAR YOUTH
Misha Smirnov has the day off. There are the traditional eggs for breakfast and the usual darkness out the window.
9 min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
Russian Chronicles
Russian Chronicles
10+ min |
March/April 2021
Russian Life
A People on the Brink
Over the past century, the ancient people known as the Votes has been exiled twice, has seen its language banned, and has faced the threat of having its villages razed. Today, although teetering on the verge of extinction, it holds fast to one of the last rights it enjoys – the right to bear and to say its own name.
10+ min |
March/April 2021
New York magazine
A Work in Infinite Progress
For the Wooster Group, theater is a religion and the process is the point. Its latest: a years-in-the-making adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother.
2 min |
March 1-14, 2021
Reason magazine
Enchanted New York
A tale of religion in Manhattan in the 19th and 20th centuries
6 min |
April 2021
New York magazine
Design Hunting: Rock-Star Journalist Lisa Robinson Has Lived in Her Apartment for 45 Years
She’s kept an archive of the cassette tapes containing hundreds of interviews she’s done in her Upper East Side rental.
5 min |
February 15–28, 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Pandemic Pen Pals
Nupur Chaudhury, a public health strategist living in New York City, grew up in the nineties sending letters through the mail. She received weekly aerograms from relatives in India; she corresponded with a pen pal in Texas; her father even took her to admire the post office’s new stamps every month. But as she grew older, Chaudhury says, “E-mail became more popular, and I really put that writing part of me to the side”—that is, until she came across the pen pal exchange Penpalooza on Twitter in August 2020.
3 min |
March - April 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Craft Therapy
In her third book, the essay collection girlhood, published by Bloomsbury in March, Melissa Febos transforms scars into meditations on culture and psychology.
10+ min |
March - April 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
A Room of (Almost) My Own
Finding space, and permission, to write
10+ min |
March - April 2021
The Atlantic
Tom Stoppard's Double Life
For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
A Forgotten Founder
Prince Hall was a free african american in Boston at a time of revolutionary fervor— and a transformative figure whose story deserves to be reinserted into the tale of America's creation.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
We Mourn For All We Do Not Know
The Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives provide a window into our heritage—to stories of suffering but also of love, joy, wonder, and survival. They’re an all-too-rare link to ordinary black lives gone by.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Caroline Shaw is Making Classical Cool
Her innovative work won her a Pulitzer Prize at age 30. She’s collaborated with Kanye and Nas. What does her success mean for the long-suffering genre?
9 min |
March 2021
Russian Life
Tenders of the Vine
Visiting Russia’s Nascent Wine Region
10+ min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
Restoring the Future
A Small Town Gets a Makeover
10+ min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
Ascending Anik
Here I stand, on the summit of Anik Mountain, drenched to the bone amid zero visibility, driving rain, and a fierce wind.
10+ min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
A Time for Pirogi
Food & Drink
4 min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
Finding St. Nicholas
To the undiscerning eye, the Turkish city of Demre is not much to look at, let alone stop for. Rows upon rows of greenhouses covered in clear plastic sheeting cover nearly every plot of land. The drab outpost in southwestern Anatolia lacks the luxuriant resorts and Turquoise Coast panache of such places as Bodrum, Marmaris, and Antalya, the latter a renowned haven for Russian vacationers.
7 min |
January/February 2021
Russian Life
A Stove Called Yerofeyich
Auntie Nina even pinched herself in the side, but no – it wasn’t a dream.
8 min |
January/February 2021
The Atlantic
The Making of a Model Minority
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
The Atlantic
The Second Career of Martellus Bennett
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
A Life in Poetry
Our sixteenth annual look at debut poets
10+ min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Akbar Edits Poetry of the Nation
In September the Nation, a bastion of progressive journalism since 1865, welcomed Kaveh Akbar as its newest poetry editor, succeeding Stephanie Burt and Carmen Giménez Smith.
3 min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
A New Chapter
The board is very pleased that Melissa accepted our invitation to lead the organization forward.a
3 min |
January - February 2021
Poets & Writers Magazine
Books Offer Lifeline in Incarceration
In the first letter Danny Harris wrote to Gary Fine from solitary confinement, he made what seemed to Fine like a simple request.
5 min |