North Korea on the Hudson: On Alexander Stille’s “The Sullivanians”
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The...
Dave Mandl’s writing has appeared in The Wire, The Believer, The Register, The Comics Journal, The Rumpus, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and other publications. He was the longtime music editor at The Brooklyn Rail and an editor at Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia. He hosts the radio show World of Echo at WFMU and plays the bass guitar in various groups.
The history of an Upper West Side sex therapy cult isn’t what you think it will be, according to Dave Mandl’s review of Alexander Stille’s “The...
David Mandl reviews Vashti Bunyan’s memoir “Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.”
Big Data is watching you, and Lev Manovich thinks that’s just fine.
Dave Mandl examines Tom Phillips’s book “Humans,” which details the many ways we’ve screwed up.
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark.
Dave Mandl consults “Where to Score,” a collection of classified ads culled from the pages of the “San Francisco Oracle.”
What is interesting about the South End story is what it reveals about gentrification generally, old or new, diverse or not.
Dave Mandl on urban history and John Rogers's thinking-out-loud travelogue, "This Other London."