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Jun 17, 2025
I read the whole thing, all 567 pages of Thomas Mallon’s The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994, which surprised me, because once I got past the parts...
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May 15, 2025
In the summer of 2022, I drove to Michael Jordan’s childhood home in Wilmington with my 11-year-old son. It was a balmy, sun-dappled afternoon. We arrived at an unassuming but...
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May 1, 2025
I reviewed Meghan Daum’s new book, The Catastrophe Hour, for Air Mail.
When I told her about this she said, “Are you even allowed to do that?”
“I’m...
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Apr 14, 2025
Over five first-rate essay collections and one very good, if underrated, novel, Meghan Daum has written a cohesive, almost novelistic narrative about a character named Meghan Daum....