Alexandra Kleeman

Oct 15, 2024 | travelandleisure.com | Alexandra Kleeman

Ireland's gently undulating landscape is ideal for long-distance runs.

Apr 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Richard Powers |Alexandra Kleeman |Vauhini Vara |Debbie Urbanski

I left New York in 2009 for grad school, and by the time I returned—just a few years later—the city had been transformed. Walking to the subway, on the sidewalks and escalators, almost everyone carried a pet screen. Sometimes people banged into things or ran into each other, too absorbed in the digital world to navigate the real one. Commuters swooned over their devices on the train, heads drooping and backs bent, like so many nodding-off drunks. It happened to me too.

Mar 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Kleeman

What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books The ShortlistNew books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive. We were promised a future full of innovation, a tomorrow filled with sleek technologies that would whisk us far away from the most mundane aspects of our humanity. Technology has indeed gotten sleeker - so why do we seem so stubbornly the same?

Dec 11, 2023 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Kleeman

After an awkward MeToo hiatus, 'May December' and other films are showing​ intimacy in messy, complicated ​ways again. Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in "Fair Play." Credit... Photo illustration by Chantal Jahchan In Todd Haynes's newest film, "May December," Joe Yoo (Charles Melton) is a 30-something man in a marriage with an unconventional back story. He met his wife, Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), the summer after seventh grade - but she was 36 at the time.

Dec 4, 2023 | curbed.com | Alexandra Kleeman

The tunnel was “dark, lots of spiders, and really tight,” said one of the five boys who got lost in a Staten Island sewer. A round six o’clock on a Tuesday evening, fire-alarm dispatcher Marlind Haxhialiu overheard a call come into the 911 dispatch in Brooklyn where he was stationed. Another dispatcher was asking the caller, a young boy from the sound of it, what address the child was calling from. “We don’t know,” said the voice on the other end of the line.