By Tess Orrick Chapter 4: “Most Democrats thought Russ was a lost cause” This episode takes place midway through the book. The… Read More »The Last Time It Worked: A Story of Working Across the Aisle
by Cody Elliott Chapter One Richard Prince walked into the room one day in spring, 2014. He was inherently both dad-like and not dad-like. … Read More »Why Does Everyone Hate Richard Prince?
By Megan Messana New York City’s Greenwich Village has a reputation as being a bohemian mecca, an artist’s haven and the home of the… Read More »Glamour and Grime: The Dark Past of Greenwich Village
by Annel Hernandez Chapter 1: A Packed Train When Theresa King heard that the Myrtle Avenue Elevated Train was going to be destroyed, she knew… Read More »Dividing Brooklyn
By John Ismay Chapter 1 With four massive truck bombs, Al-Qaeda tried to finish the Yezidis once and for all. The Yezidis, long a persecuted… Read More »The Yezidi Massacre
By Sumi Naidoo This is the last notable series of events in the life of Stephanie St. Clair, the Harlem Renaissance’s queen of the criminal… Read More »In the Court of the Crime Queen of Harlem
By Andrew Lenoir Introduction “This stop is Borough Hall, the Next Stop is Nevins Street, stand clear of the closing doors please!” Welcome to Brooklyn,… Read More »Rabbit Hole
By Ian Macdougall Chapter 1 Drew Pearson drove to the Pentagon with an ambush in mind. It was 1957, around the ides of March—a fitting… Read More »Leaker, Traitor, Whistleblower, Spy?
By Nicholas Lehr The three main characters in this book — Tammany boss Carmine De Sapio, Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Cardinal Francis Spellman… Read More »Empires Will Fall