7 City Novels in Which Real Estate and Urban Planning Are the Heroes and Villains
Stories about individuals facing change as they are torn between past and future, tradition and modernization
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A Queer Pakistani Teenager Forges Her Own Path in 1980s New York City
Bushra Rehman’s novel "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" explores Muslim womanhood in a small South Asian community of Corona, Queens
Dec 13 2022 - Kavita Das
7 Books About Sad Girls in New York City
Girls with unhealthy work-life balance, toxic romances and terrible vices, claiming the city as their own, one subway cry at a time
Sep 2 2022 - Kate Gavino
Poetry About Being a Taxi Driver in New York City
Sean Singer, author of the collection "Today in the Taxi," on being an outside observer of a passenger’s little world
Apr 25 2022 - Rebecca Morgan Frank
You Can’t Vaccinate a City Animal for Rudeness
"London Foxes," a short story by Kaliane Bradley
Aug 23 2021 - Kaliane Bradley
In “Intimacies,” An Interpreter for War Criminals Questions Her Complicity
Katie Kitamura on what happens when your job requires you to erase your selfhood
Jul 21 2021 - Alyssa Songsiridej
7 Books About What Gentrification Does to a City
Morgan Jerkins, author of "Caul Baby," recommends novels and non-fiction about the changing demographics of a neighborhood
Apr 8 2021 - Morgan Jerkins
Lydia Davis Is the Anti-Domesticity Influencer Pandemic Moms Need
Davis encourages us to embrace doing a mediocre job around the house
Feb 18 2021 - Sandra Schmuhl Long
7 Books About New York City’s Drastic Economic Divide
Stories about the wealthy and the working class who share a city
Jul 7 2020 - Lee Conell
A City Can’t Live Without Artists and the Working Class
Kevin Coval captures the gentrification of Wicker Park in his illustrated collection of poems
