Essays

Hotel Saravana Bhavan is one of the newer restaurants in Manhattan’s Curry Hill neighborhood. Its decor is simple. There are no silk prints of Mughal art. There are no large carved elephants. The tables are Lucite. The chairs and booths...

How chefs claim their creative turf on Instagram.

The sublime oddities of working the sugar-beet harvest in Fargo, North Dakota.

In Jim Crow Mississippi, speaking out cost a black waiter his job. Now he is immortalized in poetry and song.

Welcome to Braggsville’s complex structure suggests that Johnson is upping the ante of his artistic enterprise, pushing the limits of narrative and taking greater risks to get his message across.