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When Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Took the 1980s NYC Art Scene by Storm

When Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Took the 1980s NYC Art Scene by Storm

Dieter Buchhart on Two Icons of the American Art World

By Dieter Buchhart | March 7, 2022

Freelance writers rejoice (soon): you might get legal protection.

Freelance writers rejoice (soon): you might get legal protection.

By Walker Caplan | February 22, 2022

A Beautiful Sadness: On the People and Places That Will Forever Haunt Us

A Beautiful Sadness: On the People and Places That Will Forever Haunt Us

Hanna Lillith Assadi Tells the Story of Her Grandmother’s Life

By Hannah Lillith Assadi | January 13, 2022

How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

How Elizabeth Hardwick Spent Her “Starving Artist” Years in the Big City

Sleepless Nights Leaving School">Cathy Curtis on the Author of Sleepless Nights Leaving School

By Cathy Curtis | November 16, 2021

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”

By Robert Meagher | November 10, 2021

Diane di Prima Remembers Her Friend Freddie Herko

Diane di Prima Remembers Her Friend Freddie Herko

“So it was the summer of ‘54 I met you. Or the spring. Ten years ago. Sat down on a park bench beside you, in the rain.”

By Diane Di Prima | October 6, 2021

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On How New Yorkers Turned to Poetry After 9/11

By Dennis Johnson | September 10, 2021

Is New York City Doing Enough to Prepare for the Next Catastrophic Flood?

By Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros | July 30, 2021

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on the Rich Etymologies of Place-Names

By Literary Hub | June 21, 2021

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

John Tresch on the Advent of Extreme Publicity

By John Tresch | June 16, 2021

Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City... Only to Disappear Into It

Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City... Only to Disappear Into It

The Great Mistake About the Life and Times of Andrew Haswell Green">Dwyer Murphy Talks to the Author of The Great Mistake About the Life and Times of Andrew Haswell Green

By Dwyer Murphy | June 15, 2021

The Catcher in the Rye.">Of course Andrew Yang's favorite New York book is <emThe Catcher in the Rye.">

The Catcher in the Rye.">Of course Andrew Yang's favorite New York book is The Catcher in the Rye.

By Jessie Gaynor | May 12, 2021

A Witness to America: On the 1964 Frank O’Hara and Mario Schifano Creative Collaboration

A Witness to America: On the 1964 Frank O’Hara and Mario Schifano Creative Collaboration

Curator Francesco Guzzetti Considers the Pair's "Words and Drawings" Exhibition

By Vanessa Willoughby | April 20, 2021

“New York”

“New York”

A Poem by Alex Dimitrov, For Those Who Miss the Pre-Pandemic Life of Cities

By Alex Dimitrov | February 8, 2021

to Ride One">Reading the Literature of the Bicycle As I Learned<br to Ride One">

to Ride One">Reading the Literature of the Bicycle As I Learned
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Rhian Sasseen Explores the Connection Between Person and Machine

By Rhian Sasseen | January 27, 2021

NYC radical bookstore Bluestockings is back—and they need your help.

NYC radical bookstore Bluestockings is back—and they need your help.

By Walker Caplan | December 3, 2020

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