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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘BRB, Killing ISIS Guys’: An American Bro in Syria
When Brace Belden left his job in San Francisco to fight ISIS, he had no idea he’d become a prominent figure in the Syrian Civil War.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: Tupac and MC Hammer’s Promising Collaboration
Sometimes the most fertile creative relationships are the most unlikely.
Posted inEditor's Pick
(MORE) Guided Journalists During the 1970s Media Crisis of Confidence
Before Gawker there was MORE, a scrappy magazine of media criticism that wanted to hold journalists feet to the flames: “It questioned the objectivity that the New York press had long held onto. And it ended up chronicling one of the most eventful and transformative decades in American journalism.”
Posted inNonfiction
Father’s Little Helper
While under the influence of Valium, Scott Korb reflects on all the fathers he could have been and the father he has become.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
When Zora and Langston Took a Road Trip
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston gave Langston Hughes a lift to Tuskegee in her Nash coupe, nicknamed “Sassy Susie.” It was one of most fortuitous hangouts in literary history.
Posted inNonfiction
Total Depravity: The Origins of the Drug Epidemic in Appalachia Laid Bare
In an excerpt from his essay collection, Australian journalist Richard Cooke reports on the American opioid crisis through the astonished eyes of a foreigner visiting steel and coal country.
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Nonfiction
Robert B. Silvers, Editor of The New York Review of Books: 1929-2017
“I believe in the writer—the writer, above all.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized
What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists
Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
An Oral History of Detroit Punk Rock
In Detroit’s empty buildings and troubled streets, restless kids squatted, ran punk clubs, pressed their own records, and made their own magazine. They mostly stayed out of trouble.
