Kendrick Lamar (pitchfork.com) Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize Foundation announced its 2018 honorees , and this year list brought a part...

Yesterday the news broke that longtime New York Times  fashion photographer Bill Cunningham had passed away, at age 87 . Cunningham's f...

A young Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., high school basketball star at Power Memorial Catholic during the Catholic High School Athletic As...

Though the motivation often arises in me, especially when certain types of major events occur, I seldom am able to write immediate occas...

Bluebird (Credit: Anthony Mercieca/Getty Images) Today when I read  Natalie Angier 's New York Times article,   "True Blue Sta...

The favela of Vidigal, in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: www.midiaindependente.org) These days I'm trying to limit hyperlinks to the New Y...

A novel that I wrote an essay about for Spirale (at the invitation of the brilliant Nathanaël ) a few years ago, Une mélancolie arabe ...

I'm going to sing the praises of The New York Times today, and note that since October 30, 2010, it has been publishing one of the ...

One can hope, no ?

More nonfiction fakery , though as I told C tonight, when I first read about this book, I immediately thought, this story doesn't sound ...