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Ariel Levy on Emily Hahn’s “The Huge Smoke”
“Although I had at all times needed to be an opium addict, I can’t declare that as the rationale I went to China.”...
Hanif Abdurraqib on Ellen Willis’s Assessment of Elvis in Las Vegas
I've little or no curiosity in Elvis Presley’s music, and I've even much less curiosity within the mythology of Elvis as a Towering...
Hannah Goldfield on Anthony Bourdain’s “Don’t Eat Earlier than Studying This”
I’m not being facetious after I say that I bear in mind precisely the place I used to be after I first grew...
Ed Caesar on Nick Paumgarten’s “Up and Then Down”
The shortest journal pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life really befell in an elevator, which the author was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and...
Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Rebecca West’s “The Crown Versus William Joyce”
The badge of maturity, for a literary style, is the anxiousness of affect—the compulsion felt by an aspiring author to pee upon a...