New York
An education in love
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert reviewed
New York progressives want to legalize selling children
The state’s proposed surrogacy laws will rent wombs to the highest bidder
This Pride, let’s celebrate shame
Few gay men are proud to have surrendered their movement to a hostile takeover by Democrats, corporations, Marxists, and racial identitarians
The world of William Maxwell
An American original with an almost European touch: A Slightly Foxed books essay
Why Bill de Blasio is running for president
Sometimes it's not about winning. With Blaz, it rarely is
The death of New York’s nightlife
Was the Manhattan I first lived in a beautiful illusion embellished by the innocence of youth?
Donald Trump faces at-tax from all sides
Is Trump really a billionaire? We may be about to find out
The amazing tale of Judith Alice Clark
Tupac’s stepfather wowed the anti-imperialist into being a getaway driver
The many lives of Frank Harris
The weightlifting, stomach-pumping man of Transatlantic letters: A Slightly Foxed books essay
The case for cultural appropriation in food
Russian cuisine borrows from other cultures and doesn’t look back
Mortimer Sackler and me
A game of tennis with the founder of the disgraced drugs company told me all I needed to know about the man
I’m back in New York: the city that’s perennially offended
Welcome, filthy island packed to the gills with angry, mean, squat Trump haters who live in decrepit buildings they share with rat
Writing as revenge
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt reviewed
The cheerful manifesto of anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite
This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite reviewed
The strange rise of calling kids ‘mama’
No one’s giving away ‘dada’ any time soon – so why are we relinquishing our precious ‘mama’ so carelessly?
The hideously false El Chapo myth
The trial of the Mexican drug lord showed how far from a Robin Hood figure he really was
New York: the fact – and fiction
I’ve had a good time in the Bagel and am always reluctant to leave it, but nostalgia has its limits
An extraordinary encounter in a New York taxi
A chance meeting with Ben Sonnenberg’s daughter
The Statue of Liberty is a deeply sinister icon
Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty by Francesca Lidia Viano reviewed
A love letter to Brooklyn Heights
The ideal city living is the village life
The Baby Trump blimp is a huge let-down
It’s just not big enough
Requiem for New York
The Big Apple is a tired old place: upper-class vertical living has gone to seed and the fun honky-tonk side of the city has been gentrified and made boring
