Michael Friedrich

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The government’s leading program for creating affordable rentals is enriching corporate landlords while making life hell for struggling tenants—and politicians including Kamala Harris want to double down on it.

The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?

Why encouraging more private development won’t solve the housing crisis

America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.

Jim Ruland’s book on the legendary punk label helps explain why we lack a meaningful counterculture today.

Marci Vogel’s new novella, “Death and Other Holidays,” presents a meditation on grief, memory, and renewal.

R.O. Kwon’s novel “The Incendiaries” imagines the lives of students pulled into a violent cult.

Sam Pink’s disaffected fiction evokes the sheer weirdness of working life.

In Lynne Tillman’s new novel, an ethnographer studies the New Man, raised in the 90s among feminists, and examines himself.