The French As Dostoevsky Saw Them
“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”
Essay
Your Friends and Rapists
An essay on dick culture.
The Deadly Sins/Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee
Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.
On Smarm
In defense of snark.
My First Mistake
Adventures as a mortuary assistant.
Texas’ Other Death Penalty
An essay on those who don’t get caught by health care’s so-called safety net.
Thanksgiving in Mongolia
“Before I put down my phone, I took a picture of my son. I worried that if I didn’t I would never believe he had existed.”
My Life As a Young Thug
Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.
Town of the Living Dead
The authors spend time in Concord, Mass., with people who impersonate Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Blockbusters
From bombs to a boxer, variations on a name.
Heroin/e
Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.
D'Andre Brown's Basketball Dream
On not making the NBA.
Knight of the Swan
Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?
Great Guns
The author, who died last week, tells the story of his guns.
A Hollywood Ending
An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.
The Worst of White Folks
On personal responsibility and privilege.
The Percentages: A Biography of Class
A personal history of class in America.
John Wayne: A Love Song
On set in Mexico with the Duke.
Open Waters
Encounters with the sea.
The Marineland Dreamland
On disposing of a dead sea lion, and the pitfalls of memory.
Me & My Monkey
Confessions of a white-collar dope fiend.
The Whaleboat
“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”
Living With a Peacock
An essay on raising birds.
Private Ceremonies
The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.
Survivors
On the lives of street kids.
