Back in the 1980s, New York City held a privileged place in the public imagination. It was the epitome of physical and moral decay. Crumbling buildings presided over garbage-strewn streets.…
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When you lived in hunter-gatherer tribes, things were simple. In that era, we spoke only through shamans and dreams. When you settled into farms and villages, however, things became much…
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. 1 One of the very best things about Tom Wolfe is…
Let’s skip the boring introduction. You weren’t going to read it anyway. Jump to the obligatory quote… Humans are the worst. We’re moody, we burn popcorn in the microwave, and…
A short piece of music I wrote inspired by Gao Panlong’s “A Syllabus for Living in the Mountains,” translated by Bin Song and edited Paul Blair. I tried to capture…