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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Taiye Selasi in Conversation with Sapphire at McNally Jackson

March 28, 2013

A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Sapphire speaks with Taiye Selasi about her new book, Ghana Must Go, and why she needed to leave New York to finish writing it.

On The Fashion Fence: Uniqlo (seriously)

By Sarah Bennett

March 28, 2013

Uniqlo may work for you, but not for me.

Best Kind of Autobio: I Want To Be Her, by Andrea Linett

By Sarah Bennett

March 28, 2013

In praise of Andrea Linett's I Want To Be Her.

I Will Watch Anything: Black Ink Crew

By Sarah Bennett

March 28, 2013

...even and especially tattoo shoppe-based reality shows like Black Ink Crew.

Dog Run Reviews, Part 1

By Sarah Bennett

March 28, 2013

New York's many dog runs reviewed, one by one. This week: Union square.

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.