Sasha Gordon
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life story [feature]
By Sasha Gordon | February 25“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion says. But I don’t like Joan Didion, and I wish she’d never said that. I am looking in the mirror, and I am upset, rehearsing for an interview, a date, or the dreaded “tell me about yourself”—generally getting my narrative together. ...
Science & Research
How a series of transatlantic letters unlocked a new understanding of economic transformation in Germany
By Sasha Gordon | February 10Benjamin Hein’s recent book explores how the German-American diaspora impacted German industrialization.
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action potential [feature]
By Sasha Gordon | December 3Lands of opportunity are frequently co-inhabited by lesser-known creatures: decisions. Opportunities gambol and frolic around, but if you look closely, tailing each opportunity is a little decision or two, nipping at its heels, encumbering it just a tiny bit. This ecosystem is more complex than we may ...
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the summer i fell out of love with the new york times [feature]
By Sasha Gordon | November 5It took seeing one friend repeatedly reassure another that nothing was wrong and then, in their absence, proceed to describe everything that was, in fact, wrong for me to realize that I’m a very direct person. Obviously, I’ve told half-truths and stalled a confrontation for another day, but in a ...
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picture a raven with a kodak [A&C]
By Sasha Gordon | November 5Fine! Fine. You got me, okay? I said all week that I wasn’t going to write a piece that started with two lines from a song that unexpectedly has deep and personal relevance to me, cut to some narrative, cut back to two lines from later in the song, rinse and repeat. But here I am. It works! I get ...
