Readings

'This Brave New World Has Some of the Worst Aspects of the Old Way of Doing Things': An Interview with Doree Shafrir

The author of Startup on gender inequality, tech culture and the shifting world of journalism. 

The State of Black Mourning

For the past five centuries being black has meant collectively experiencing grief in ways that the rest of society does not understand and cannot fully comprehend.

'Trump Has Allowed a Different Public Face to America's Morality': An Interview with Eden Collinsworth

Speaking with the author of Behaving Badly about the spread of misinformation and what drone strikes and clever robots have to teach us about the future of ethics.

Free the Roses

On the bloom of spectacular decline.

'You Write Your Way Into a Certain Kind of Clarity': An Interview with Paul Auster

Talking with the author of 4 3 2 1 about unfair criticism, being haunted by what-ifs, and the stuffy conventions of modern American fiction.

Kids Like Us

Fifteen years after its release, Bend It Like Beckham is still an essential representation of South Asian teenagehood. 

The Loneliness Recipe

When I get homesick in New York, I scour Chinatown for ingredients to make my Korean grandmother's radish, or mu, soup. 

Waterpark, with Occasional Nazis

There’s nothing like trying to face your fears and reclaim your childhood to remind you that everything you believed was good and pure is a lie.

'It's Both Excruciating and the Opposite of Excruciating': An Interview with Darcie Wilder

Speaking with the author of literally show me a healthy person about the genesis of her new book, the power in learning to talk about yourself, and the joys and perils of growing up online.

A Season of Reckoning For a 'White Man's Sport'

As the most immigrant-dependent and racially diverse sport in the United States, baseball this year seems primed to either lose its politically aloof pose at last or look progressively ridiculous.