My dad was a proud Clevelander, born and raised. He loved the cultural opportunities and the gritty toughness. (Lots of…
Material Issue founder and frontman Jim Ellison died in June 1996. After Jim died, I wrote a long obituary for NewCity,…
I don’t care that much about sports. And it’s tough to write about sports because the people who do care…
Before Twitter, there were warring op-eds. I don’t remember with perfect recall all the details here, but the salient point…
I believe this is the only piece I ever wrote for Book Forum, and it’s a longy. Eric Banks was…
Like everyone, I grew up watching Ron Popeil sell his crazy inventions on television. He sold two million Chop-O-Matic hand…
David Boies has been involved in many of the most important legal cases over the last 30+ years. He represented…
This was the first piece I ever published in The New York Times—a review of Peter Kuper’s comic about Franz…
The great cartoonist Joe Sacco collected his Palestine comic into a book-length version, which is here reviewed for Might Magazine.
I went to Crown Heights in March, 1994, to do a story for Might Magazine in the wake of the…