From The Village Voice, a special issue on the Best of NYC 2007. If you want to understand the psyche of 21st-century New York, there's probably no better guide than Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik. Reading Janet Malcolm's more than 30 years' worth of cultural reporting for The New Yorker is to watch a writer take full possession of a form and make it her own. The literary style that ate Brooklyn: Brooklyn is a multifaceted and many-splendoured borough, but you wouldn't know that from today's writers. An article on the canon according to n+1. From New York, everybody sucks: An article on Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass.
