The illustration shows the frightened-looking figure of a woman looking over her shoulder in front of a large house surrounded by hills and palm trees and other expansive homes. The color scheme is pink and blue and black. You’re reading the Race/Related newsletter Join a deep and provocative exploration of race, identity and society with […]
Twenty years ago I was in an accident that resulted in the loss of function and feeling in my right hand. I was a child playing ice hockey. A friend’s skate found, somehow, the underside of my wrist. There was a lot of blood. There was surgery. Years of physical therapy. I’d been, at the […]
A 2011 portrait of the writer Joan Didion. Her former assistant Cory Leadbeater has written a memoir about the years he worked for, and lived with, her. THE UPTOWN LOCAL: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir, by Cory Leadbeater One of Joan Didion’s greatest talents was a bit of sorcery: She somehow became an […]
