New York Times Magazine
Jun 2013
On living in Syria as an Alawite loyalist.
Tuesday, June 18
The Awl
Jun 2013
On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.
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Outside
May 1998
“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”
Monday, June 17
New Yorker
Jun 2013
“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”
Sunday, June 16
The Believer
Jun 2004
Four dispatches from the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday:
In most places in the world, June 16 is just another day on the calendar, but here in Dublin, the day that James Joyce earmarked for Ulysses is celebrated with a fervor not seen here since the days of the druids when, if you really wanted to party, you needed a couple skeins of wine and a grove full of virgins.
Der Spiegel
Jun 2013
An interview with the artchitects responsible for Stuttgart’s train station, Hamburg’s concert house and Berlin’s airport, three projects “currently competing to be seen as the country’s most disastrous.”
