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Our Town: A Literary History

Michael Lewis’s new book, Boomerang, is about the parts of the globe that were downgraded by the credit crisis, and my hometown of Vallejo, California, concludes his world tour like a telegraph from the end of days. From Lewis’s book, … Continue reading

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Ten Years Later: City of Comrades

Many think of Lower Manhattan as a commercial neighborhood, but it’s also home to 50,000 residents. When the twin towers collapsed, they crashed into the living rooms, and into the lives, of the residents of Battery Park City, a planned … Continue reading

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