The daughter of Indian immigrants looks at race, class and climate change in the giant heat sink known as Phoenix, Arizona, a city where money equips residents with the shade trees and air conditioning necessary to survive the heat.
September 2018
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Do You Want to Know a Secret: The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney
“Imagine realizing one day that you’re a Beatle. Think about how you might decide to handle that for the next 50, 60, 70 years.”
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A Mystery Shrouded in an Enigma Wrapped in a Snazzy Tie and Smothered in Inherited Wealth
Who is Tucker Carlson?
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The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney, the type of man who washes out his one pair of socks after the gig, is polite, profanity-averse, and still a prolific performer to this day. In Chris Heath’s GQ profile, he talks about getting mugged with Linda while recording Band on the Run in Nigeria, killing frogs on his childhood estate to […]
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Let Them Eat Pancakes
Employer loyalty is nice, but people can’t actually their pay bills with it.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month in Books: ‘Everything That We Are and Ever Have Been’
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about identities — mistaken, misunderstood, transformed, false, false, fictional, or as anonymous as the op-ed.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Trip to Tolstoy Farm
Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.
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The Constant Consumer
The world as platform: In Amazon’s dream universe, we’re all customers by virtue of existing.
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Play Like a Girl
Historically excluded and pushed into softball, Baseball for All empowers girls to stay in the game.
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Florida, White Privilege, and Racism
My origin story—as a son, and later a father and a husband; as a citizen, a racist— has always begun in a crumpled car at the side of the highway. May 30, 1982.