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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Writing
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency
An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.
Posted inUnapologetic Women, Writing
Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You ThinkÂ
While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Recovering My Fifth Sense
Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Recovering My Fifth Sense
Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
When Is an Internet Company Evil?
What is Facebook *really* about? Surveillance and advertising, not about “the power to build community” as its new mission statement so disingenuously puts it.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction
An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency
An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Can an Old Satire, Reborn, Survive the New Political Climate?
Meghan Daum is nervous about the reception for her reissued debut novel, a satire of small towns and coastal elites.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Story, Writing
This Is How They Saved Me
One month after her father was arrested, Neda Semnani and her family were taken on a dangerous journey to be smuggled out of Iran.
