On Iowa City’s Market Street stands a low-slung, trailer-like red building. This is Dave’s Fox Head Tavern, one of the sites where the official culture and the counterculture of this most literary... Read more »
The long-gestating period serial killer film The Devil in the White City, which for almost a decade has been a mooted collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese, is reportedly on... Read more »
Eric Hazan, a lifelong Parisian who died in June, wrote several books about his hometown, with a particular focus on the class politics of the built environment. In Balzacâs Paris he revisits... Read more »
Amid the sunshine and wild celebrations of Friday 25 August 1944, the day the Germans surrendered control of Paris, Charles de Gaulle declared the city to have been âliberated by itselfâ, with... Read more »
Printed Matter Chelsea Thrilling, overwhelming, chaotic: even if I spend an hour in Printed Matter, I often feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. It took me a couple of years to... Read more »
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. The descent by plane into Jakarta begins after views of the muddy oxbows of South... Read more »
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. After the pandemic struck Mexico City in early March, the frantic rhythm of urban life... Read more »