The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Wonder Dog

PUBLISHED: Feb. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5797 words)

This Land

An important, yet often overlooked, dimension of Bruce Goff’s contribution to American architecture was his years teaching at the University of Oklahoma. Although he never attended a…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2056 words)
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy

If theres one thing I learned in graduate school, its that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (They fuck you up, your mum and dad, / They may not mean to, but they do.) At the time, I was a…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1118 words)
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