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Travel Day

Photographs of airports by twenty photographers, with an essay by Geoff Dyer

Spare the Darling

by John Crowley,

Though I have been hearing (or rather reading) it a lot lately in many venues, it was a little odd — even a bit unsettling — to read it in the New…

Showing a Little Leg

by Dan Keane,

A pilgrimage to Ellen Altfest’s body paintings

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

Regarding the Fame of Others

by Jonathan Cott, Susan Sontag,

From previously unpublished excerpts of a 1978 interview with Susan Sontag by Jonathan Cott. An edited version of the interview appeared in the October 4, 1979, issue of Rolling Stone.…