Archive
Discoveries: Clyde Phillip Wachsberger
The Future Belongs to Crowds
Opie has always asked to be written into history.
Outside the Law: Michael Fried's "Four Honest Outlaws"
Find Yourself A City To Live In
The Scholar’s Art: On Susan Stewart
2050 or Bust
Cairo is a city often captured by stereotype: its unruly traffic, pollution, slums, decay, and general chaos, framed as an insult to the Pharaohs.
Postal Modernism
On two volumes of letters by Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett.
The Art of Slacking: Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat"
Letter From Detroit
For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.
Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson, Part 2
I decided to get high.
Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson, Part 1
His last words to me as he opened the door and stepped into the hallway were: "Feel free to use any of this in the script."
Impersonating Ourselves
It's no wonder that we are often confused by impostors, delighted by sock puppets, and relieved — most of us, anyway — that we remain singular.
Finishing Touches
On the posthumous work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Heroine Chic: Tarpé Mills' "Miss Fury"
Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"