Selected Pieces

How major architects of the 1980s and early 1990s brought a new fantastic point of view to the Walt Disney Company’s buildings

This is the house-hunting show we need right now

Without the objects he lived with, his house was no longer my home

A look at the Resolute Desk, an icon of the American presidency

While I understand the idea that the park, founded in 1833, isn’t a park so much as it is a very nice front lawn for the lucky residents of the square, I also like to read quietly outside and I’m annoyed that I can’t do it there.

A windfall can come with guilt, anxiety, and other complicated feelings

What counterfeiting really means for designers, customers, and collectors.

Suffragists, African-Americans and Chinese immigrants all criticized the statue as representative of a nation that was not yet free for everyone

Many have suggested Frank Sheeran’s claims about the murder of Jimmy Hoffa are mere fantasy; the historical context of Scorsese’s epic is more nuanced

The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles

In 1986, John Peterman bought a duster in Wyoming. Three decades later, he's still selling it.

Like many big-city dwellers whose dreams were more outsized than their budgets, Murphy lived in a one-room apartment, which made it tough to entertain.

As I checked in, I was lost in a reverie, practically smelling the Le Labo bath gel and wondering if I should treat myself to a cold glass of champagne to sip while I soaked.

“Lazy Susan, the cleverest waitress in the world, at your service!”

Virginia McAlester’s book scrutinizes the nation’s homes, brick by brick.

Acting as first lady is a tough, public job that has always been considered women's work. If Bill Clinton becomes the United States' first man to take the position, he has a chance to change that — or not.

‘Everything comes full circle, doesn’t it,’ says author of rock memoir ‘I’m With The Band’

I was the web editor at Lapham’s Quarterly from 2014-2016. A selection of pieces can be found here.

What I couldn’t get enough of back then, and refuse to stop thinking about more than seven years later, are the paparazzi photos of Jones taken on the morning of June 9, 2010.

It helps that the fan, unlike the boxed versions you buy at Duane Reade at midnight, is entirely made of metal, which means it’s sturdy enough to withstand both regular cleaning and regular dragging around the house.

“They have your special toothpaste at Ricky’s,” a friend texted me recently, and though she couldn’t have known it, my heart stopped.