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A Public Defender’s Radical Approach to Representing the January 6th Rioters
“You can see the Capitol from here,” Heather Shaner, a criminal-defense lawyer, says as she walks with her client Jack Griffith, a.k.a. Juan Bibiano, a.k.a. Liberty Dragon, to his...
The Enduring Power of Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death”
There’s a self-portrait that shows Peter Hujar mid-leap. The picture is taken in a room, presumably in Hujar’s own East Village loft—at a time, 1974, when it was hard...
Should You Just Give Up?
Around fifteen years ago, an old college friend of mine had a close call in the mountains. He and a companion were on a ski trip when they decided...
Rachel Kushner’s Covert Op Against Realism
The narrator of “Creation Lake” (Scribner), Rachel Kushner’s new novel, is the pseudonymous Sadie Smith, a thirty-four-year-old American who specializes in infiltrating tight-knit groups of rebels, radicals, and subversives....
The Gaza We Leave Behind
On a summer evening many years ago, my father and I sat on the roof of our family home in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, and we talked about...
Growing Up with the Writer Ved Mehta
My parents’ apartment had never looked better than on the day it was photographed to sell. As I walked through the rooms, the only thing that seemed out of...
Putting the Breakfast in Breakfast Ramen
Before becoming a chef, Purdie worked for a decade as a stylist at the late department store Henri Bendel, and on her lunch breaks she often went to a...
The Killers’ Return to Las Vegas
A tense and anticipatory silence engulfed the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. It didn’t last long, but an entire universe of waiting seemed to unfold in mere seconds. Then a...
The Brooklyn Museum Celebrates Two Hundred Years
James Ijames has three genres in mind for “Good Bones,” directed by Saheem Ali. First, it’s a haunted-house thriller: Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson) walks around her new home—a restored...
