Willa Glickman

Life Storage

Protecting graves in New York City has never been easy.

Until the Next Storm

With the deadlines imposed by New York’s signature climate law looming, Zohran Mamdani will have to enforce the city’s green transition.

The Sliwa Era

For more than four decades, Curtis Sliwa has been a bellwether for New Yorkers’ perception of urban crime—and what they think should be done about it.

Far Out

“I am cautiously intrigued by recent hints that our standard cosmological model may need some upgrades.”

In the Zone

“I am fascinated by the imperial encounter, whether at the level of states or of individual human beings whose lives were enmeshed in these powerful governing forces.”

Scratching the Surface

“What we’ve come to call ‘election denial’ is, of course, a conspiracy theory, and support for that is an article of faith for many Trumpists who want to work in the administration, so to a greater or lesser extent, they’re all under the spell of conspiratorial thinking.”

Dismantling the Environment

“To anyone who lives through one of this season’s coming hurricanes or wildfires, the text of the message to Americans from their government is clear: You’re on your own. But the subtext is: You’re also in the dark.”

The President of Brooklyn

The saga of Eric Adams’s mayoralty has come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term—from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable. 

The Fight for Uyghur Rights

“The Uyghur language is banned in schools, hospitals, and government buildings. Uyghur mosques are being shut down, Uyghur cultural activities are being banned, and there are no places to speak and practice our culture.”

‘An Internal Colony’

“What makes the Ozarks unique is that the richest family in the world lives in what is historically one of the poorest regions in the country.”

The Climate Election: Fighting for a Greener Future

Vegetative States

“Just about everything we have learned about the natural world in recent decades suggests that qualities like intelligence and sentience are much more widely distributed across the animal kingdom.”

Shadow Drafting

“Archival research can be magical, maddening, and sobering. Finding just one mention of an enslaved person’s name or an enslaved family’s home in a record can feel monumental.”

In the Path of Totality

Dispatches from the 2024 solar eclipse

The Price of Stability

“Prabowo’s victory opens a window onto how the depredations, violence, and corruption of the Suharto era unevenly influence the present.”

Crash

“Movies and automobiles developed hand in hand, in every way.”

How To Film A City

In his series for HBO, John Wilson obsessively catalogued footage of New York and its oddballs.

Hidden Crimes

“The cobalt they produced was going into our phone and electric vehicle batteries. How could we be basing the future on such a dysfunctional and tragic practice?”

The Decadent Life of the Mind

“There aren’t a lot of freelance philosophers in the world anymore. I can wake up in the morning, dream up any text I like of any length and any degree of complexity, in any style and on any topic, and just sit down and write it.”

‘People Are Not a Crisis’

Eric Adams has insisted that his administration is doing its best to house New York’s asylum seekers, but the city’s shortage of shelter space is the result of political choices.