Current
Land of the Flea (people selling used stuff)
Brian Eno, playfulness can substitute for inspiration
FICTION: Autobahn
Zach Hefland, The Best Fake Books Made Real | Feb 3, 2025
Music, Art, Books, Film
Joan Acocella, Graham Greene's Dark Heart | Mar 22, 2021
Rachel Aviv, Alice Munro's Passive Voice | Dec 23, 2024
Ed Caesar, Seize the Night | Oct 3, 2022
Solomun, The DJ who rules Ibiza
Adam Gopnik, The Dragon's Egg | Nov 27, 2011
JRR Tolkien, "the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
E. Tami Kim, Han Young-Soo: The Henri Cartier-Bresson of South Korea | Jan 18, 2025
John Lahr, Sinatra's Song | Nov 3, 1997
Sarah Larson, Ira Glass Hears It All | Jul 8, 2024
Interview about This American Life
Ian Parker, The First Rule is Not To Lie | July 4, 2022
Emmanuel Carrére writes his way through a breakdown
Claudia Roth Pierpont, Tough Guy: The mystery of Dashiell Hammett | Feb 3, 2002
David Remnick, Keeping Faith: The Gospel According to Mavis Staples | Jul 4, 2022
Paul Rogers, Paul and Audrey | Feb 8, 2021
As a tyro critic in the nineteen-sixties, I fell for the works in the Frick one by one...
Michael Schulman, How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Swallowed Hollywood | Jun 5, 2023
Robert Redford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Rudd, and Angela Bassett now disappear into movies whose plots can come down to “Keep glowy thing away from bad guy.”
Michael Schulman, On Succession, Jeremy Strong Doesn't Get The Joke | Dec 5, 2021
Parul Sehgal, The Key To Me | Jan 3&10, 2022
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can't resist it. But the trauma plot is wearing thin.
Mark Singer, The Man Who Forgets Nothing | Mar 19, 2000
The Minnestrone of Martin Scorsese's Mind
on Christian Marclay
Daniel Zalewski, The Hours | Mar 4, 2012
portrait of Christian Marclay
Daniel Zalewski, Night Shift With "The Clock" | Mar 13, 2012
Yes, I have seen all twenty-four hours of Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
Meghan O’Rourke | Is "The Clock" Worth The Time? | Jul 18, 2012
Photography
Alex Prager, Los Angeles Dreaming | Sep 9, 2019
Hashem Shakeri, Ghost Towers: The view from Iran's housing crisis | Oct 21, 2019
Faith
Casey Cep, The Quiet Revolution of the Sabbath | Sep 30, 2023
Vinson Cunningham, Personal Jesus | Jan 4 & 11, 2021
What Thomas Jefferson did to the gospels
Personal History & Profiles
Tad Friend, Men of Letters | Apr 18, 2022
Adam Gopnik, The Man Who Spent Forty-Two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool | Feb 14, 1993
Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd | Jan 18, 2021
Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco
Ben McGrath, The Undead | Jul 12 & 19, 2010
Big Papi's late innings
Al Pacino, Early Scenes | Aug 6, 2024
Akhil Sharma, Wide World of Disney
Dorothy Wickenden, Late Harvest | Feb 28, 2022
Wendell Berry profile
Short Stories
Colin Barrett, A Shooting in Rathreedane | Dec 6, 2021
Lauren Groff, Annunciation | Feb 7, 2022
story |
Lauren Groff, To Sunland | Jul 4, 2022
Patricia Highsmith, The Trouble With Mrs Blynn | May 19, 2002
Greg Jackson, The Hollow | Nov 29, 2021
Gish Jen, Detective Dog | Nov 22, 2021
Ian McEwan, A Duet | Aug 1, 2022
author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach
Thomas McGuane, Take Half, Leave half | Oct 10, 2022
Alejandro Zambra, Skyscrapers | Aug 22, 2022
Chilean writer, set in Santiago
Humor
Robert Carlock, Letter of Resignation | Jul 25, 2022
Dear Global Liberal Cannibalistic Pedophile Conspiracy...
Carlos Greaves, Script of Every Movie Set in Boston | Oct 25, 2023
Jay Martel, Disappointing Near-Death Experiences | June 13, 2022
World
Anand Gopal, The Other Afghan Women | Sep 6, 2021
Elizabeth Kolbert | Poles Apart: How Politics Got So Polarized | Jan 3&10, 2022
Photos | Families Flee Ukraine | Mar 7, 2022
Bits
Kyle Chayka | Tiktok's Favorite Camera | July 10, 2024
The Fujifilm X100
Adam Elder | The Lou Gehrig of Beer Guys | Apr 1, 2024
Zach Helfand | Kill The Umpire: Will robots save America's pastime? | Aug 30, 2021
Joshua Rothman | Should You Just Give Up? | Oct 8, 2024
Naaman Zhou | The Twitter Account That Collects Awkward, Amusing Writing | Apr 19, 2022
Writers
Peter Schjeldahl, The Outlaw (William S. Burroughs)
Mirror World: How William Gibson makes his science fiction real | Dec 16, 2019
Football and the Fall of Jack Kerouac | Sep 6, 2013
New York
Old John's Diner, upper west side
Golden Diner, lower east side | Oct 18, 2019
Adam Gopnik, When New York Made Baseball and Baseball Made New York | Mar 25, 2024
The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting once produced a pastime that bound a city together.
Joseph Mitchell, Street Life: Becoming Part of the City | Feb 3, 2013
Joseph Mitchell | McSorley's, the Oldest Irish Saloon in the City | Apr 14, 1940
index to pieces by Joseph Mitchell
Jordan Orlando, The Once and Future MOMA | Jan 26, 2020
Peter Schjeldahl, Rehab: The Museum of Modern Art Enlarged | Oct 14, 2019
Christmas
Casey Cep, A Forgotten Book of Christmas Poem
"American Christmas,” first published in 1965, includes both classic and nearly unknown works, and widens a reader’s sense of what the holiday might mean.
Miscellaneous
Jerome Groopman, The Resistance
Can science help us change our habits?
Nicholas Lemann, A Call For Help: What the Kitty Genovese story really means | Mar 10, 2014
Joshua Rothman, Becoming You | Oct 3, 2022
Are you the same person you were when you were a child?
