On Practicing the Discipline of Hope
An interview with Jia Tolentino.
Great articles, every Saturday.
An interview with Jia Tolentino.
Christopher Bollen, Jia Tolentino Interview Jul 2002 15min Permalink
On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.
Ben Schwartz Vanity Fair Apr 2016 25min Permalink
A conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Rembert Browne Grantland Sep 2015 20min Permalink
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
Kyle Chayka New Yorker Jun 2020 20min Permalink
The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.
Hua Hsu New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink
Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.
The two poets correspond about basketball, life, and living.
Ross Gay, Noah Davis The Sun Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink
A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.
Michael Sokolove New York Times Magazine Apr 2016 10min Permalink
A profile of Little Richard in the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair and living in the penthouse suite at the Hilton in downtown Nashville.
David Ramsey Oxford American Dec 2015 10min Permalink
Meet the artist who hid away for a month in total darkness.
Tom Lamont 1843 May 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
Truman Capote New Yorker Nov 1957 55min Permalink
On the then-new phenomenon of dead downtowns.
“It is not only for amenity but for economics that choice is so vital. Without a mixture on the streets, our downtowns would be superficially standardized, and functionally standardized as well. New construction is necessary, but it is not an unmixed blessing: its inexorable economy is fatal to hundreds of enterprises able to make out successfully in old buildings. Notice that when a new building goes up, the kind of ground-floor tenants it gets are usually the chain store and the chain restaurant. Lack of variety in age and overhead is an unavoidable defect in large new shopping centers and is one reason why even the most successful cannot incubate the unusual--a point overlooked by planners of downtown shopping-center projects.”
Jane Jacobs Fortune Apr 1958 25min Permalink
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
Elon Green Inside Hook Apr 2020 15min Permalink
The strange life of a 16-year-old model.
Jennifer Egan New York Times Magazine Feb 1996 35min Permalink
A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.
Oliver Franklin-Wallis GQ Apr 2020 30min Permalink
The making of Caddyshack.
Kate Meyers Golf Digest May 2004 20min Permalink
Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2020 35min Permalink
Before The Jerky Boys and Longmont Potion Castle there was Mal Sharpe.
Jack Boulware SF Weekly May 1995 25min Permalink
For decades, the artist’s Saturday Evening Post covers championed a retrograde view of America. This is the story of the politically turbulent 1960s, a singular painting, and Rockwell’s unlikely change of heart.
Tom Carson Vox Feb 2020 25min Permalink
When a young author started her novel years ago, she saw it as a romance. She sees it differently now.
Lila Shapiro Vulture Feb 2020 20min Permalink
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
Parul Sehgal New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
How the bestselling sci-fi author builds her stories.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Jan 2020 25min Permalink
On Kara Walker.
Zadie Smith The New York Review of Books Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.
Sasha Weiss The New York Times Magazine Jan 2020 30min Permalink
Why is Rick DeVos, the son of Betsy and the heir to the DeVos fortune, investing in a weirdly populous and highly lucrative art contest?
Matthew Power GQ Sep 2012 25min Permalink