The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.
Tag: New York Times Magazine
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What can clients do to fight laws that harm sex workers?
Speak up already! Plus: a gay cross-dresser who really shouldn’t adopt.
Posted inBlogs
Looking for a ‘national conversation’ on race? Look around.
The conversation is happening in the streets and all around us.
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Is it unethical to pry? The Times’s Ethicists say ‘butt out’
Questioning the Times‘s Ethicists on the case of a lost ring.
Posted inFilm
James Franco and Jonah Hill exploit each other in True Story
In this adaptation of Michael Finkel’s confessional memoir, a murder suspect plays mind games with a reporter.
Posted inMusic
In Rotation: My Gold Mask’s Gretta Rochelle on Omar Souleyman’s ‘psycho percussive festivity’
Current musical obsessions of Oshwa’s Alicia Walter and My Gold Mask’s Gretta Rochelle
Posted inBlogs
Another of my forlorn attempts to protect the language from journalists
Snub is a word that’s being abused.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The undoing of a president’s mystique
What would have happened to JFK if he’d been scrutinized in the same way as Obama?
Posted inBlogs
Kanye West and the perils of cool-dad syndrome
Examining the rapper-producer as he prepares for fatherhood
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Weekend reading: global animal warfare
John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jon Mooallem on a gathering threat
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New York Times: A newspaper for the one-percenters
In the New York Times, stories about the rich lead nicely to ads for the rich
Posted inBlogs
Death, despair, destruction: a few long reads
The Internet is for aggregation! The least you can do is read some good shit