He takes us from John Jacob Astor’s fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land…
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Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival…
Continue Reading....Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves…
Continue Reading....Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
(Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye…
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