Selected reporting and essays
Na Kim Designs The Book Covers You Judge
For years, Na Kim has made great books stand out. Now her paintings are catching eyes, too.
(Photo: Dana Scruggs for NYT)
(Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Nicole Gradeless, Cat Benson, Retailer)
They Think You Should Be Grateful, The New York Times
Alex and Mimi Ikonn are the duo behind the popular “Five Minute Journal,” which has become ubiquitous on night stands and on social media.
(Photo: Sofia Gomez Fonzo for The New York Times)
It-Girl Artist Avery Singer Investigates 9/11, WSJ. Magazine
In her latest exhibition, Singer uses her signature computer-assisted artistic technique to explore her Manhattan childhood.
(Photo: Caroline Tompkins for WSJ. Magazine)
A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead, The New York Times
Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored.
(Image: Johnny Milano for the NYT)
Bathtub Drafts, Los Angeles Review of Books
Doja Cat wants you to see her
Artist Tschabalala Self Sees Bodies Like No One Else Does, WSJ. Magazine
(Photo: Christian DeFonte)
Save Our Starbucks, The New Yorker
(Illustration: João Fazenda)
The "Cadillac of Mailboxes" Arrives in N.Y.C.,
The New Yorker
(Image: João Fazenda)
A Rare Tour of the Neustadt Collection’s Tiffany Glass, The New Yorker
Jewish Delicacies Beguile the German Capital,
The New York Times
(Photo: Gordon Welters for NYT)
Buyers Snap Up Parts of a Berlin Landmark,
The Wall Street Journal
(Photo: Christine Frenzl)
Restored, a 'Crown Jewel' Returns, The Wall Street Journal
Louise Nevelson's 'Night Presence IV' Returns to Park Avenue
Cow Barn Behind a Masterpiece Gets Saved From Udder Ruin, The Wall Street Journal
On restoration at estate of Southern-Gothic novelist Flannery O'Connor in Milledgeville, Ga.
Where’s Leo? The Paris Review
A Bloomsday dispatch from Dublin
Faulkner, Cubed, The Paris Review
On “literary” synthetic cubism