Downtown Local Social Science a kind soul dreams of

a kind soul dreams of selling “everything you need for suicide”

Journalism demonstrates the power of our premier cartoonist to chronicle lived experience with a force that often eludes other media

Hairy tales

an exquisite literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley

Han and Leia face a mysterious woman from the charming smuggler’s past — one with a very personal grudge

Downtown Local Social Science a kind soul dreams ofTired of handwringing reports about lost and disappearing New York? These dispatches show a different side of the cityresilient and flourishing despite the naysayers and high rent. Like a modern day Joseph Mitchell, Cometbus visits projectionists studying Chinese in their booths, prophets whose pulpits are illegal sublets, and personal assistants who rule the roost once their bosses are out of sight. Readers get a tour of the downtown photographers