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Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

I Had To Leave My Mother So I Could Survive

by Elisabet Velasquez October 14, 2019January 20, 2023

Elisabet Velasquez reckons with a lifetime of disharmony with her religious, mentally ill mother.

Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?

by Ethan Chiel July 5, 2018October 19, 2022

The new president of the New York City Transit Authority is smart, seems almost unfailingly polite, and is very English. Whether that’s enough to enable him to wrangle the system he’s been tasked with fixing remains to be seen. William Finnegan paints a deft portrait of Andy Byford settling into his new job and getting […]

Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

The God Phone

by Leora Smith January 14, 2020February 23, 2024

What happens when ordinary people play God to strangers? Leora Smith explores the history of one of the oldest art installations at Burning Man and the conversations that unfold there.

24 Hours At My Local Dunkin’ Donuts

by Krista Stevens June 18, 2018October 19, 2022

In a bid to get to know the members of her community, Laura Yan spends 24 hours in the Nostrand Avenue branch of Dunkin’ Donuts in New York City.

Arts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story, Unapologetic Women

Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre

by Carina del Valle Schorske April 3, 2019October 19, 2022

Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.

The Death of a Once Great City

by Catherine Cusick June 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Kevin Baker connects the dots between empty penthouses and empty storefronts in New York City, tracing how the rich have transformed what once was a significant cultural entity into “the world’s largest gated community.”