The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
by Kiese Laymon
I’m a walking regret, a truth-teller, a liar, a survivor, a frowning ellipsis, a witness, a dreamer, a teacher, a student, a joker, a writer whose eyes stay red, and I’m a child of this nation.
by William Wimsatt
Wanting to be down but not wanting to sacrifice anything for it - the way blacks have to sacrifice things to be down with us - that’s the age-old story of whites in black culture…
by Brent Staples
My first victim was a woman-white, well dressed, probably in her early twenties. I came upon her late one evening on a deserted street in Hyde Park…
by Jesse Berrett
Though envy is by consensus a bad thing — one of the Seven Deadly Sins, after all — it’s also an underappreciated forum for cultural communication and transmission.
by John Conroy
“In my next conscious moment, I was dimly aware that I was facedown on the pavement. There was blood in my mouth.”
by Mark Jacobson
On the one hand, marijuana is more mainstream than ever before, practically legal. On the other, kids are getting busted in the city in record numbers. Guess which kids.
by Devin Friedman
Why one would take out an ad on the Internet looking for a black friend is a legitimate question. Here’s my answer…
by David Dobbs
A couple years ago David Pizarro, a young research psychologist at Cornell, brewed up a devious variation on the classic trolley problem. The trolley problem is that staple of moral psychology studies in which you ask someone to decide under what conditions it’s morally permissible to kill one person to save others…
