New York

New York is Dead, Long Live New York

New York is dead, they say. The pandemic has killed it. Restaurants and theatre and comedy clubs are a thing of the past. The long-term...

Lessons in Resistance

The train emerges from the tunnel just beyond Halsey Street in Bushwick, and for a moment I feel that I’m transported back to a train in...

Exercises in Precarity

It’s one of the miracles of our modern society that one day you can be on a flight from London to New York, and the next you can be...

Home is a flexible concept

People think there’s glamour in this modern-day nomadism, yet no one talks about the darker side of this jet-setting and country-hopping.

A Crisis of Overconfidence

I always hated talking in class. Nothing struck fear into my heart like reading that “participation points” would count for 25% of my...

On Leaving London

It was an outcome I’d resisted for years. I was packing up my room in London; I was leaving. People used to ask me what I would do after...

SARAH ZAWACKI