This list is a birthday gift to me and, I hope, of use to you, too.
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A Reading List for My 25-Year-Old Self
This list is a birthday gift to me and, I hope, of use to you, too.
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New York City’s Menu Wars
In the early 1990s, food delivery services on Manhattan’s Upper West Side sparked what New York Times writer Emily M. Bernstein called “the menu wars.” Everyone from dry cleaners to nail salons followed Chinese restaurants’ lucrative lead, placing paper take-out menus inside apartment buildings’ lobbies and mail rooms and under residents’ doors. Angry tenants demanded […]
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Why Bordeaux Consumption in the U.S. Has Been Declining Since the ’80s
Yet, while the trajectory of Petrus [a major Bordeaux wine estate] has been ever upward (and its price as well), the consumption of Bordeaux in the United States has been declining since hitting its peak in market share in the mid-’80s. Even the boozy precincts of France have become less boozy—about their wine, at least. […]
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A Drug-Fueled Sprint Through Times Square: The Opening Credits of ‘Broad City’
The Art of the Title takes you behind the scenes with Mike Perry, the illustrator behind the colorful chaos of the “Broad City” credits, and Julie Verardi, Comedy Central Senior Designer and Animator.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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A San Francisco Story
Princess Anastasia was homeless, and lived and died in the Castro. Two different families piece together a life.
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A San Francisco Story
Princess Anastasia was homeless, and lived and died in the Castro. Two different families piece together a life.
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The People Who Get Woken Up at 2am When Bob Ballard Finds Something on the Ocean Floor
73-year-old ocean explorer Bob Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic 30 years ago, and he hasn’t stopped exploring the ocean floor since. In a recent piece for Popular Mechanics, Ryan D’Agostino profiled Ballard and the research aboard his ship Nautilus (a 211-foot former East German research vessel that carries seventeen crew and thirty-one scientists and operations specialists). But what […]
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Travel, Foreignness, and the Spaces in Between: A Pico Iyer Reading List
Seven reads by Pico Iyer on travel and finding one’s place in the world.