September 2014 Archives
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The Expense Report
Some Facts About the Listicle
The bread and butter of online journalism, epitomized by lists like “The 25 Most Kimye Things That Have Ever Happened,” got its start in a 19th-century column in the New York Times.
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Gallery
Dark Markets
A new book captures Chicago’s financial markets at a moment when there are no offers for trades—any trading company’s horror vacui.
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Etiquette, cc: All
Sorry I’m Not Sorry
Many people in the news are saying sorry, albeit through gritted teeth. Why apologies are essential—especially the non-apology apology—to navigating our modern world.
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Dispatches
Blues on Wheels
A writer becomes a carrier for the United States Postal Service out of a long-held love for the mail. What she discovers are screams, threats, lies, labor violations, and dog attacks.
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Gallery
History of Magic
Paintings full of ceremony, mysticism, and sisterhood that remain electric with desire, even when the object of desire is a mystery.
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Breaking the News Cycle
Lean Into a Croissant Doughnut
Brief updates to news stories that have slipped off the front page. This week: schoolgirls in Nigeria, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Josh Hartnett’s career, and more.
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Dispatches
The Iron in Man
How a book, booze, and a guilty hangover brought an admittedly non-athletic man to the starting line, and what happened next.
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Gallery
Going Nowhere
Mid-century magazine clippings find new life in collages that are just the right amount of weird and clever.
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New York, New York
Dharma Dog
A blind woman and her guide dog share a symbiosis that can become a spiritual bond for both.
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Roundtables
Harry Potter and the Shades of Twilight
A generation of women read the Harry Potter series as teens, Twilight in college, and Fifty Shades of Grey in their twenties. What is the cumulative effect?
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Dispatches
Summer Into Fall
New clothes, AP classes, middle-aged angst. A New York City mom reflects on being pulverized by the first day of school.
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In Plain Sight
Terrapin Station
All the magic of the Mojave Desert, or the Amazon rainforest, can be found in the salt marshes of New Jersey.
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National Colors
The Jungle Look
The rear ends of black women appear to be pop culture’s current favorite commodity. But Nicki Minaj’s new video is anything but so simple.
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Gallery
Fractured Fauna
Copper deer, bears with cabinet legs, and other absurdities to be found in the future wild.