A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
The best book about the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, though it is about France in 1950s Algeria
Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war
But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war
My journals on September 11th, 2001
I still can’t believe how slowly I grasped the scale of what was happening that day
Ten years gone
On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened
Where tourists and locals go in Cairo
Genius mash-up map uses Flickr photos to reveal insiders’ favorite areas in cities around the world
Patti Smith sends me to the Chelsea Hotel
The Chelsea, she writes, was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone. Indeed.
Why we will miss this grimy little bar
Mars Bar was a vestige of the East Village in the 1980s: the area cleaned up but the bar never did
Seeing the Ryan Trecartin exhibit at PS1
His tedious stories replicate like fractals in a surfeit of superficially distinct artistic choices
New York’s next taxi: suburbia comes to the city
Can a bunch of bureaucrats turn even this ugly vehicle into a legend?
The Mitzvah Tanks cruise Manhattan for Passover
A mitzvah on the spot for people on the go, it promises
At LCD Soundsystem’s last-ever show
The band put on a marathon final show at Madison Square Garden and went out in style
Guerlain container: Paris, late-19th century
A 19th C container by Guerlain, the French perfume house, ends up on the Bowery in New York