Liquid Cities
“In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: ‘how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.’”
“Like a Tap Being Turned Off”: Music Magazines Fight for Survival in UK
With no concerts to sell ads for and few shops open to sell print issues, British music magazines such as Q, Uncut, and Mojo are suffering and considering their options for survival.
How to Cool It
“I’m questioning the values on which this country thinks of itself as being based.” James Baldwin’s landmark 1968 interview about race relations in America.
I Will Miss What I Wanted to Lose
“I didn’t fully appreciate what life on the road gave me until suddenly it was gone.”
The Evidence Against Her
He raped and tortured her for years. He had a gun; he “showed her diagrams of the human brain… the place that would allow her to live but without speech or memory. ‘Wouldn’t that be convenient, he said.'” She shot him, to save herself and her kids. And according to the prosecutor, jury, and judge, she’s a premeditated murderer who deserves her 20-year prison sentence.
The Resilience of Marga Griesbach
“I think every life is like a novel.” Marga Griesbach was born in Germany in 1927. Her life is like multiple novels — horror, romance, magical realism, travelogue. Whatever you’re doing right now, you should stop it and read this story.
How Selfie Culture Ruins the Great Outdoors for Everyone Else
“There have literally been screaming matches and fist fights over parking spots,” she says. “It can be like a shopping mall at Christmas.”
Splendid Isolation
Meditations on a surreal cherry-blossom season in Japan.
1,112 and Counting
Larry Kramer’s historic essay, originally published in March 1983, was a clarion call for urgent action on HIV/AIDS.
The Ramshackle Garden of Affection
Two poets exchange letters about language, love, and basketball.
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