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The Return of Trump—IV | Paisley Currah, Trevor Jackson, Kim Phillips-Fein, Ian Frazier, Adam Gaffney, Madeleine Schwartz

Nov 11, 2024 | nybooks.com | Adam Gaffney |Ian Frazier |Kim Phillips-Fein

Paisley Currah • Trevor Jackson • Kim Phillips-Fein • Ian Frazier • Adam Gaffney • Madeleine Schwartz * This is what Donald Trump could do to transgender people during his second presidency: discharge all trans service people from the military; impose a nationwide ban on medical care for trans youth; prevent Medicaid and Medicare from paying for transition-related care even for adults; permit private health providers to exclude transgender-related coverage; ban all trans girls from playing on...
Can We Talk! | Ian Frazier

Aug 29, 2024 | nybooks.com | Ian Frazier

The inhabitants of Earth speak 7,164 languages, according to Ethnologue,a database that catalogs the living languages of the world. A recent US Census recorded about a hundred of them in New York City, the most linguistically diverse city in history. The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), a nonprofit that keeps track of the city’s languages, has found more than 700 of them and made a map of more than 1,200 places—restaurants, temples, mosques, community centers—where people speak them.
Taking the Joke Further | Ian Frazier

Aug 24, 2024 | nybooks.com | Daniel Drake |Ian Frazier

“Weird,” wrote Ian Frazier for the NYR Online on August 13, “[Tim] Walz’s now famous one-word description of Trump & Co. is solidly Nebraskan and from the school of Carson.” This forthright Midwestern quality, Frazier argues, is what distinguishes Kamala Harris’s running mate from the last several generations of presidential and vice-presidential candidates. “Governor and Mrs.
Brooklyn? Bah. Manhattan? Meh. A New Book Calls the Bronx the City's Best Borough.

Aug 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ian Frazier

PARADISE BRONX: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough, by Ian Frazier"The Bronx? No thonx," wrote the poet Ogden Nash for The New Yorker in 1931. It's surprising that Ian Frazier's latest book, a fat and occasionally even phat history of the borough, omits this memorable epigram, later recanted. First, like Nash, he's a New Yorker man known as a humorist, though a mostly prose-y one (a hundred bloggers toddled so that his Cursing Mommy could run).
The Importance of Being Tim Walz

Aug 13, 2024 | nybooks.com | Ian Frazier

Governor Tim Walz, as everybody knows by now, comes from Minnesota by way of Nebraska. He grew up near the eastern Nebraska town of West Point, which is about forty miles from the small city of Norfolk, the childhood home of Johnny Carson, the quintessential late-night talk show host. Carson’s “The Tonight Show” (later “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”), which appeared on NBC in the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties, impressed his Midwestern persona into the nation’s consciousness.
The Plunder and the Pity | Ian Frazier

Jan 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Ian Frazier

The American Society for Psychical Research still exists. A group of scholars and scientists including William James founded it in 1885 to promote the study of dreams, clairvoyance, mind reading, premonitions, séances, hallucinations, out-of-body states, and other such phenomena. At the time many people in the United States had been caught up in the Spiritualist movement, with its mediums who contacted the dead and reported back.
10 of the best books about road trips

Jul 25, 2023 | hagerty.com | Jack Kerouac |William Least Heat-Moon |Robert M. Pirsig |Ian Frazier

When I was hired at Car and Driver 34 years ago, editor-in-chief William Jeanes said: “P.J. O’Rourke has fled to D.C. to interrogate politicians. You’re replacing him. Try to be funny. Try.” I immediately phoned P.J. to ask, “You got any unused material stuffed behind the refrigerator?”We thereafter remained friends, at least until February 2022, when P.J. hit life’s ultimate blind curve.
ON BOOKS: ‘Still Pictures’ a memoir of Janet Malcolm

Feb 19, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Ian Frazier

"The train was headed for Hamburg, where the ocean liner on which we had passage for America was docked," Malcolm writes." A distant cousin of her mother's took the picture; he "was not Jewish or not Jewish enough to be on the list of the doomed," Malcolm writes, though after the war he eventually made his way to Pennsylvania."Even as she tells us a story," Anne Malcolm writes, "she reminds us of her own presence, as the lens through which that naively imagined 'actuality' is being...
Grim Reapers | Ian Frazier

Jan 19, 2023 | nybooks.com | Ian Frazier

Mega-agriculture is destroying the Corn Belt and the Central Valley, which the country’s food system depends on. Can midsize farms survive to save it?