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.”
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Dance Me to the End of Love
In this personal essay, Abigail Rasminsky looks back on the youthful days she trained to become a professional dancer — and the injury that put an end to her dreams.
Posted inReading List
Sex Work and Workers: A Reading List to Get You Beyond Law & Order SVU and Pretty Woman
The best way to learn what being a sex worker is like is to listen to sex workers.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Traveling While Black Across the Atlantic Ocean
Following in the footsteps of African Americans traveling to Denmark in the early 20th century, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.
Posted inNonfiction
‘We Live in an Atmosphere of General Inexorability’: An Interview with Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino talks about what kinds of personalities thrive online, why she is suspicious of her own self-narrative, and the pervading sense that everything’s spiraling out of control.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
New York City’s Housing Emergency
New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
New York City’s Final Frontier: Underground
What lays beneath New York City affects life above ground. One team is mapping the city’s below-ground infrastructure.
Posted inFeature
How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England
In Victorian London, a gang of U.S. hustlers attempts a ten-million-dollar heist on the safest bank in the world. Can the detective who inspired Sherlock Holmes catch them?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
Posted inCrime, Story
“We Are Not Lost Causes”
How youth in Rochester, New York, are working to save their neighborhood — and themselves — by forging pathways away from violent street crime.
