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What else I've been reading in January 2026
Charles Dickens, Jacques Pépin's memoir, examinations of the American empire, and more
Jan 31
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Benjamin Schneider, The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution (2025)
What retarded American cities (in the literal sense), and how to set their development right
Jan 1
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Sergio Chejfec, Mis dos mundos (2008)
A novella of the promise and disappointment of walking an unknown city
Nov 9, 2025
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Fifth anniversary sale: one year for $30
A special deal for urban-minded readers everywhere
Sep 20, 2025
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Edmund White, The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2001)
What the late examiner of American gay life learned from his expat years
Sep 10, 2025
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A. J. Liebling, Chicago: The Second City (1952)
When a New Yorker correspondent profiled the postwar "not-quite-metropolis," not every Chicagoan was pleased
Jul 21, 2025
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Ferdinand Addis, The Eternal City: A History of Rome (2018)
22 dramatic chapters in the life of a city, and a civilization, you may already be thinking about every day
Jul 6, 2025
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David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries (2009)
The former Talking Head takes Sebaldian rides through New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, and beyond
May 29, 2025
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