our local correspondents ·
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.
our local correspondents ·
Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.
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Reflecting on the irreproducible color of the monument’s patina.
life and letters ·
Ian Frazier on Ellin Mackay, a prodigy débutante of the Harold Ross era.
a reporter at large ·
The Asian-carp invasion.
a reporter at large ·
The path of poets and prisoners.
our local correspondents ·
Keeping hip-hop safe from crime.
our far flung correspondents ·
Ian Frazier treks through the American South in search of feral swine, and explores the wild hog’s long history.
our local correspondents ·
Ian Frazier on the thrill of snagging plastic bags in trees.
a reporter at large ·
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.
profiles ·
PROFILES about 2 emigre Russian conceptual artists, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid... The two began working in collaboration in 1965. Melamid is thing …
fiction ·
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…
profiles ·
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.
shouts & murmurs ·
The playwright Samuel Beckett is your flight captain in this Shouts & Murmurs piece by Ian Frazier, from 1980.
a reporter at large ·
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 …
fiction ·
Piece which treats David Niven autobiography, "The Moon's a Balloon," as though it were of great scholarly significance. A lengthy discussion of Sam …