May 2012 Archives
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
Therapist, Know Thyself
For psychotherapists, maintaining a stable, flawless public image is critical. But when a marriage and family counselor actually goes through a mid-life crisis herself, all bets are off and here come the tattoos, affairs, and professional infidelities.
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The Biblioracle
Where’ve You Been, Biblioracle?
From 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. ET today, tell the Biblioracle the last five books you’ve read, and he’ll recommend your next favorite novel.
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Paris, USA
Our French Connection
A two-week journey across the US—specifically towns named Paris, with a clipboard and a hundred questionnaires—to uncover what Americans think about the French.
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The Tennis Handsomes
Look Out, North America
One great joy of watching tennis is a type of tourism of personality, and I don’t need Americans to actually win. But a shared geography imparts some type...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
I’d first heard about the site on my outing to St. Paul’s Church in the Bronx. Frank, the lecturer at St. Paul’s that day,...
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This Week
Make the Most of It
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, when we...
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Gallery
Chiquita Banana
Paintings crammed with matriarchs, wrestlers, and girls wearing bananas on their heads—where quite a lot more is going on than first appears.
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A Modest Proposal
How to Not Kill a Cyclist
A plea for safety from cyclists to motorists.
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Gallery
The Lighthouse
Using a darkened home, precisely placed mirrors, and the occasional judicious cut in a wall, light becomes sculpture.
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Other People
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Before the internet, before Facebook, before Twitter, a group of British documentary filmmakers launched what has become the grand-daddy of reality television. What can Seven Up! tell us about our own experiences in the (self-induced) spotlight?
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Announcements
Like It’s 1999
On Tuesday, Rosecrans and Paul Ford will read at New York City’s KGB Bar at 7 p.m.. Rosecrans and Paul have an unlikely friendship, but we’re...
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The Business Desk
Arts and Crafts and Money
When “small batch” equals big dollars and one-person companies are supported by corporate-size websites, is “hand-made” what we think it is? A report from North America’s largest consumer craft fair, where the competition for puppet dollars is intense.
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Letters From Beirut
Jonestown, Naipaul, and Me
A boy asking for money. An editor yelling at him to go away. An author, a rising star, dying young from a heart attack. A group of followers ending their lives at the wish of a single man.
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Gallery
Artist for the Trees
Intricate designs found in large-scale, labor-intensive relief prints made from the cross sections of trees and lumber.
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This Week
Everyone Is Wrong
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, the opinion column...
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Spoofs & Satire
From the Files of the Dream Police
They’re waiting for you. They’re looking for you. Every single night they’re on duty, ready to drive you insane. Stories from the blotter of the men inside your brain.
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America, America, Burning Bright
Deplorable, Lousy, Godawful, and Required
People complain that politics are worse than ever. It happens to be true. But history contains as many examples of the contentious, weird, and wacky as the present—and those absurdities are actually vital to our democracy.
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Contest
Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down: Cover Remix Contest
To celebrate the release of Rosecrans Baldwin’s Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, we’re giving away copies of the book to...
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Off the Counter
Bagels, Toasted
Risen from the streets of Eastern Europe and squalid New York City, bagels now hold a seat at middle- and upper-class breakfast tables everywhere. A look back from a baker with 50,000 “golden visions” under his belt.