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David Grann on St. Clair McKelway’s “Previous Eight Eighty”
It appeared not more than a curious footnote—a counterfeiter so outlandishly inept that his solid greenback payments had been detectable even at an...
Alexandra Schwartz on Joan Acocella’s “The Frog and the Crocodile”
When I'm caught on a sentence or attempting to wrestle an thought into form, I flip to Joan Acocella. As a critic, I...
Rebecca Mead on Mary Ellen Mark’s Photograph from the Puerto Rican Day Parade
When the photographer Mary Ellen Mark arrived in New York Metropolis, in 1966, one in every of her methods for locating arresting photos...
Jonathan Blitzer on Roger Angell’s “Down the Drain”
As a New York Yankees fan, I spent the summer season of 2000 feeling my chest tighten anytime my staff was on the...