Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Travel
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground
Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine
How the songwriter’s abandoned third album became two albums.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
A Place to Stay, Untouched by Death
After her mother’s passing, Jane Ratcliffe considers the role everyday objects play in a good death.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Place to Stay, Untouched by Death
After her mother’s passing, Jane Ratcliffe considers the role everyday objects play in a good death.
Posted inNonfiction
Sex Workers vs. The Internet
Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Sex Workers vs. The Internet
Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Urban Crisis of Affluence
An investment property is not a home. Neither are cities where most people can’t afford to live.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses
Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
