How William Kennedy found his beat
Kennedy’s problem was that he revered literature so intently that, by his own account, his early attempts at writing fiction tended to be inert and “ponderous.” The newsroom beat that out of him.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/09…
The Doulas Who Help Us Die
In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
The Fractured State of Architecture Journalism and Criticism
I am an architect, who helps make things, and I write about architects who make things…It’s a unique and sometimes awkward position, tinged with a conflicting mix of empathy and cynicism.
https://commonedge.org/the-fracture…
How a Band of Difficult Thinkers Shaped One Author, and the World
In “The Frenchmen,” Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.
https://nytimes.com/2026/07/21/book…
Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World
The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
The 25 Sculptures That Define the Modern Age
Four artists and a curator debate the most important works since the end of World War II.
https://nytimes.com/2026/08/04/t-ma…
To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.
I handed over my laptop and phone and, suddenly, there was nothing to do.
https://nytimes.com/2026/08/01/opin…
William H. Whyte: Still Relevant After All These Years
Whyte was a conservationist, land preservationist, and environmentalist, and, even more important, in all his work he showed how all of that was connected to good urbanism, managing development in the urban center for city, suburb, and countryside.
https://commonedge.org/william-h-wh…
Inside Letterform Archive with Rob Saunders
Bringing analog genius to a generation of digital natives, 2026 Curious 100 honoree Rob Saunders shares the history of graphic design from San Francisco, hands-on and online.
https://eamesinstitute.org/stories/…
Peter Hujar’s Search for Secrets
The photographer’s portraits bring certain truths to the surface.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
From Bernie to Mamdani, how the Occupy movement transformed American politics
Yotam Marom, who helped lead Occupy Wall Street, discusses why power must be built through movements, not simply through elected officials.
https://theguardian.com/us-news/202…
An Interview with Eva Hesse
I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. For me it’s a total image that has to do with me and life. It can’t be divorced as an idea or composition or form. I don’t believe art can be based on that.
https://artforum.com/features/an-in…
Ana Mendieta, the Body Artist
Decades after her death, her bold innovations are finally coming into focus.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
From A.I. to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All
One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that eerily anticipated our day.
https://nytimes.com/2026/07/10/book…
Vast, Flat, and Expensive
Michael Heizer’s “bulldozer art” is a precedent for LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries.
https://archpaper.com/2026/07/micha…
Colson Whitehead’s Big Score
As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026…
What I Learned From David Hockney
The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.
https://nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts…
Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion
What are the conditions that enable a country to become great — or great again?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9NCxS__…
This humble building in small-town Texas houses one of America’s greatest private art collections
In its design for Arthouse, a small museum in Marble Falls, Texas, Lake Flato has created a veritable Hill Country kunsthalle.
https://wallpaper.com/architecture/…
When Modernism Meets Local Resistance: Housing and Urban Friction in Latin America
Modern housing was one of the places where modernism made its boldest promise: that architecture could reshape not only the city, but the way people lived within it.
https://archdaily.com/1041759/when-…
The Man Who Wrote Too Well
Reyner Banham was not only a scholar but also a prodigiously productive journalist. Consider his remarkable analysis of a pioneering crash-test dummy.
https://placesjournal.org/article/f…
How Else Could You Get Out: William Kent and the Zipper
Eggs are no longer eggs. Eggs are meant to be containers for metamorphosis, and it is essential to the eggness of the egg that the creature inside be able to break out when it’s mature.
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/05/ar…
How Courtyard Blocks Promote Social Connection
The courtyard block’s ability to create simultaneously strong public and private realms is the genius of its form.
https://commonedge.org/how-courtyar…
Folded Paper: A Decade Inside the Infosphere
Everything that used to live on different sides of different sheets: work and play, public and private, performance and confession, friend and audience, real and rendered, has been folded into the same plane.
https://rockyhanish.medium.com/fold…
This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential
The 89-year-old Buddhist nun teaches the power of agreeing with your anxiety, instead of trying to run from it.
https://nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opin…
