[Not single-page] A trip to a mysterious, reclusive community in New York that’s been derided by neighboring residents for decades: “For most of its history, the residents of surrounding areas quietly judged the Oniontowners but left them alone up on the mountain. ‘Most locals know there’s no point in going up there,’ a state police […]
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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Face
Kare’s first assignment was developing fonts for the Mac OS. At the time, digital typefaces were monospaced, meaning that both a narrow I and a broad M were wedged into the same bitmapped real estate — a vestigial legacy of the way that a typewriter platen advances, one space at a time. Jobs was determined […]
The Rise of Dog Identity Politics
[Not single-page] Dogs are increasingly rootless souls, country bumpkins in city apartments. But is a vegan pup still an animal?
Tweet Tweet Boom Boom
[Not single-page] A new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the city is trying to overthrow old media and build a better New York–with the help of their iPhones. Are they dreaming? Definitely. But in a good way.
The Patron Saint (and Scourge) of Lost Schools
[Not single-page] Eva Moskowitz, the controversial leader of the fastest-growing charter network in the city, wants to save New York public education by, in a sense, destroying it.
Uniqlones
[Not single-page] Seemingly out of nowhere, their cheap, skinny rainbow-colored basics became a kind of New York uniform. Just how did the Japanese discount brand become the hottest retailer in the city?
The Skies Belong to Us: How Hijackers Created an Airline Crisis in the 1970s
Brendan I. Koerner | The Skies Belong to Us | 2013 | 25 minutes (6,186 words) ‘There Is No Way to Tell a Hijacker by Looking At Him’ When the FAA’s antihijacking task force first convened in February 1969, its ten members knew they faced a daunting challenge—not only because of the severity of the […]
Making the Magazine: A Reading List
27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
“There were a million heavenly things to see and a million spectacular ways to die.”
Swiping Right in the 1700s: The Evolution of Personal Ads
Noga Arikha | Lapham’s Quarterly | 2009 | 13 minutes (3,200 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) I. In 1727, a lady named Helen Morrison placed a personal advertisement in the Manchester Weekly Journal. It was possibly the first time a newspaper was ever used for such a purpose. As it happens, Morrison was […]
