“The MTA’s new redesign of the New York City subway map is the latest of many attempts to capture the sprawling network on paper.”
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To All the Brooklyn Brownstones I’ve Loved Before
“The brownstone stood for everything I wanted: solidity and urbanity, possibility and permanence. I could see it, stand inside it, even sleep there. But it wasn’t mine.”
Last Call at Bed-Vyne & Brew
“After 12 years of serving a community that seemingly willed them into existence, Bed-Vyne & Brew is closing this week.”
It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil
“I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production.”
Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
“A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.”
W.A.S.T.E. Not
“John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history.”
Touching The Elephant: Notes from a Haitian in the Diaspora
“It has always been a failure of both imagination and of historical evidence, to only center Haiti in crisis.”
