The Indypendent
Culture
The Happiest, Most Depressing Essay Ever
I always notice them when I’m walking along the street. There’s no identifying characteristic, necessarily, it’s just something that…
Power Up: A History of Energy and the People Behind It
In the late 19th century, horses hauled wood culled from North America’s great forests in order to heat and…
Bill Fletcher Tackles Identity, Race and Small Town Murder With ‘The Man Who Fell From The Sky’
“Race” as a biological category differentiating humans has been a spurious and discredited marker for more than a century.…
‘Sketchtasy,’ A Novel of Coming of Age Amid AIDS
Lambda Literary Award winner Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has described herself as “a genderqueer faggot, and a queen, on the…
Offerings from local working-class heroes and global superstars make our music critics’ list of the year’s best records.
It was almost 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and I was standing on the corner of Essex and…
Superb Humanity: A Christmas Fairytale
Everyone saw something different in the stain, but everyone agreed there was something there. Ms. Nancy, who was always…
Hank’s For All The Memories: A Long-Standing Boerum Hill Haunt Bites the Dust
Ernest Hemingway wrote of the importance of a “clean, well-lighted place.” I would counter that a dark den of…
She captured the intimate moments behind the lesbian liberation movement of the 1970s.