Ian Frazier walked a thousand miles in the borough and found that, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the fires of the nineteen-seventies, the history of the borough has always been shaped by its in-between-ness.
Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier , a staff writer at The New Yorker , is the author of “ Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough .”
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After witnessing a bombing in Iraq, the Army Reserves veteran and newspaper columnist decided to work through her P.T.S.D. in the fields, Ian Frazier writes.
Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.
Reflecting on the irreproducible color of the monument’s patina.
Ian Frazier on Ellin Mackay, a prodigy débutante of the Harold Ross era.
The Asian-carp invasion.
The path of poets and prisoners.
Keeping hip-hop safe from crime.
Ian Frazier treks through the American South in search of feral swine, and explores the wild hog’s long history.
Ian Frazier on the thrill of snagging plastic bags in trees.
Part II of Ian Frazier’s series on America’s Great Plains region, where the writer rambled for six thousand miles in 1989, logging his encounters and observations.
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PROFILES about 2 emigre Russian conceptual artists, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid... The two began working in collaboration in 1965. Melamid is thing …
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A humor piece about the selection of England's poet laureate. In England, when people discuss poetry they're talking business--big business. At the…
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Ian Frazier profiles Poncé Cruse Evans, the Texas-born author of “Hints from Heloise,” an international household-hints column, founded by her mother, Heloise, in 1959.
The playwright Samuel Beckett is your flight captain in this Shouts & Murmurs piece by Ian Frazier, from 1980.
REPORTER AT LARGE about attending last summer's centennial celebration of the Last Indian Raid in Kansas. Since about 1956 such a celebration has been …
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Piece which treats David Niven autobiography, "The Moon's a Balloon," as though it were of great scholarly significance. A lengthy discussion of Sam …