When the kids go back to school, what do the adults return to? Tradition? Seasonal basics? Early-aughts cyberstalking? “Out of State” winds down the summer with its final installment.
Maybe the 4th of July fireworks will do a better job of speaking for New Yorkers than the old dudes behind the podium.
Natasha Stagg’s snapshots New York in the midst of a struggle between justice and the lure of posing for a close-up. Spoiler alert: She has parted ways with selfie-behemoth Instagram in the process.
On branding, policing, and the endless stream of images that fill our screens and our squares (the big ones).
Natasha Stagg concludes her summer column on an ambivalent note, reviewing Richard Linklater’s film Where’d You Go Bernadette.
Natasha Stagg on (self-)promotion and dressing for the street style photographers. Participation is mandatory.
Poetry may be dead, but the confession reigns. Natasha Stagg on the power of erratic tell-alls.
Natasha Stagg discusses her love of decadent psychological thrillers while she goes sailing in Mallorca.
Natasha Stagg watches Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and reflects on the culture that engendered Sharon Tate and Marilyn Monroe's tragic stardom.
Natasha Stagg talks about how vanity has changed and reflects on what her favourite movies have in common.
Nastasha Stagg is in love, only wants to buy designer underwear, and tells us why she enjoys going to strip clubs.
Back with a new summer column, Natasha Stagg draws the connections between consumerism, waste, sustainability, and the intangibility of identity.
Natasha Stagg goes to Europe and deliberates on the demands and kindnesses of strangers.
In 1980 the French newspaper Libération asked Marguerite Duras to write a chronicle for them over one year. The pieces could be as long or short as she liked, so long as she wrote every day. Duras sai...
For the summer of 2017 Spike invited Natasha Stagg to do the same: one text a week, of any length, on whatever she likes. One summer long. This is her fourth report:
For Theo summer of 2017 Spike invited Natasha Stagg to do the same: one text a week, of any length, on whatever she likes. One summer long. This is her second report:
For the summer of 2017 Spike invited Natasha Stagg to do the same: one text a week, of any length, on whatever she likes. One summer long. This is her first report:
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