September 2012 Archives
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Letters From Tel Aviv
Getting By on Allenby Street
For the middle-class residents of Tel Aviv, housing is either too expensive or difficult to find. On one city street, apartments are plentiful but—for more than one reason—not the kind you’d like to see.
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End Zone
The Refs Stink
During the post-game analysis, Steve Young seemed to fight back tears. “And it brings it down. To a level of other things that we see in sports, that&rsquo...
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TMN Weekender
Irreplaceable
In this edition of the TMN Weekender, a selection of stories about (American) football. Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book you can export to your Kindle,...
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Reading Roulette
Igor Sakhnovsky
We continue our series of publishing contemporary Russian literature in translation—stories you won’t find anywhere else, unfortunately—with a novelist who turns Mr. and Mrs. Nabokov into objects of captivation. Don’t miss out on your chance to win a gift card from Powells.com.
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Cloud of Atlases
Get Your Kicks
(One clue to get you started: The map doesn’t represent gross national anything.) [Answer]
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On The Academy
A Buyer’s Guide to American Colleges
Rare is the college graduate who’s attended more than one school. But when you’ve attended four very different types of university, it’s incumbent upon you to share what you’ve learned.
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Letters From London
Rhythm in Disguise
Musical therapists can improve patients’ cognitive functioning and motor skills. But sometimes the battle is to keep a mind intact. Avant-garde composition and EKG techno in a London care center.
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Gallery
Ashes in the Night Sky
Galaxies and night skies constructed entirely from ashes, creating a tangible connection to notions of death and what lies beyond our atmosphere.
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End Zone
The Jets Stink
Which is how I found myself, as 2010 ended, witness to possibly the most poignant and prescient Jets-themed gift exchange ever. (Possibly there is not much competition in this particular category.) ...
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Personal Essays
Learning to Talk
When a voiceover artist temporarily loses the use of her primary asset, the struggle back to speaking unearths what’s gone unsaid for too long.
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TMN Weekender
Pity the Rich
In this edition of the TMN Weekender, a selection of stories about the little people. Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book you can export to your...
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Birnbaum V.
Martin Amis, Redux
Our man in Boston sits down with Martin Amis for their sixth chat to discuss Nabokov, dictionaries, spiteful reviews, the death of Christopher Hitchens, and the freedom of writing fiction.
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New York, New York
The Boulevard of Broken Bones
Even through the prism of life in the tumultuous Middle East, the U.S. in an election year looks divided, fractious, frustrating. But there’s still a ray of hope—in Queens.
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The Revenge Desk
Ninety-Nine Bottles of Pee on the Wall
Everyone says they’ve got a book inside, but hundreds of people actually write them—and are preyed upon by scam artists. The greatest story of literary vigilantism ever told.
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Gallery
Art Fare
Gallery owners don’t often show up in the art they sell—probably because they’re too busy having meetings to pose. But an art gallery itself turns out to be as much a theatrical diorama as a place of business.
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TMN Weekender
Failure to Communicate
In this edition of the TMN Weekender, stories exploring the Middle East and Islam...from perhaps a more nuanced point of view than has been expressed this week. Ready to...
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Fact-Checking
Here There Be Monsters
A professor teaches his students skepticism by instructing them to create hoaxes with the web as their laboratory.
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Personal Essays
The Wolf Is Waiting
Imperceptibly and without warning, your pulse accelerates, your mind races, and panic grips your body—for anxiety attack sufferers, every day is a case in survival. A journey to the wild to confront the fear.
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Transcontinental Summer Reading
Matilda
What was the book about? A little girl who had very bad parents and had the power of controlling things with her mind. She was very intelligent and was adopted...
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Spoofs & Satire
Dear Literary Magazine
Every day, rejections from lit mags flood the inboxes of thousands of writers the world over. Today, one writer changes all that.
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Gallery
The Ascent of American Girls
Intimate, candid portraits that capture the intimacy, private moments, and self-sufficiency of girlhood, from the riveting book Girl Ascending.
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Kicking the Bucket List
Tiny Castles of Doom
Read between the lines of a to-do list, and you’ll find an artfully constructed maze of excuses. A challenge to complete five things before the end of summer, or before you die—whichever comes first.
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TMN Weekender
The Blue Party
In this edition of the TMN Weekender, a selection of stories looking at the nation's blue party. Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book you can...
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Transcontinental Summer Reading
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
What was the book about? It’s about three children who are raised in the woods by wolves, and then they’re found and brought back to a...
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The Tennis Handsomes
Some Sunny Day
At the time, Roddick was the latest in a long line of American tennis players extending our global dominance, stretching at that point from Connors to McEnroe to Chang to...