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Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
A meditation on not calling New York home
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
THERE’S ONLY ONE STRAIGHT PATH IN CENTRAL PARK
A vividly memorable narrative that you won’t want to end
Editor's Pick, Essays, Friendship Issue
PARTNERS
In which a bond between two men erodes over time
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
ESCAPE FROM BROOKLYN
Memories of Brooklyn
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
NYC DNA
On the lengthy strands of our person tangling into the great city
CENTRAL PARK AS YOSEMITE
Exploring the wilderness of Central Park
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
THE RBG VOTING RIGHTS ACT: REAUTHORIZATION & AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2021
Politics meets creativity for a slightly more aggressive amendment to the VRA
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MOTHER
Poignant, almost remorseful, a short essay of long thoughts.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue
AINU OTHELLO: THE STORY OF A PLAY
Alison Watts discusses a Japanese adaptation of Othello.
Editor's Pick, Essays, Spring 2021: Japan Issue
A HIGH-TECH ANCIENT STILLNESS
Looking at art and nature with Pico Iyer
HOPELESS
Hope without effort is a dead, abstract thing.
Essays, EssaySaturday, Loneliness Issue
MARY
The private and the public intersect, reverberating down the years.
Essays, EssaySaturday, Loneliness Issue
FAR FROM FORSAKEN
An unhappy family, unhappy in its own way.
FROM SOMEWHERE
An essay examining the intersections of past and distant present, fixed and transient, wildlife in Central Park.
A CALIFORNIAN LIVING IN NEW YORK DURING COVID-19
Still in Manhattan few smile. You learn to thicken your skin here, to become hardened. It’s not all bad. There is beauty in this city; there is forgiveness.
Van Gogh Unbound
Art as therapy is explored in this personal essay about loss.
Feelin’ like a Criminal: Trauma in ‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple
‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple, encompassing #MeToo and Lolita along the way.
The Frugal Repast
It was a mistake because no matter how many words I wrote, I couldn’t get any of them to move. They stood in place, in time, even, right there on ...
Hindsight 2020: Notes on the First Year of the Trump Presidency
An Essay exploring the national crisis of narrative spawned by the Trump era, and the way this played out the authors day to day life throughout the first year of ...
Lenin in the Sky
A young woman, in love, for the first time in New York, taking a stroll through the city with her lover. Everything is magic and enchanting and exciting in this ...