Long Island And Dogs

Long Island City

Rob Stephenson | The Neighborhoods | 2nd October 2026 | U

This northwestern area is "the closest Queens gets to Manhattan, both geographically and architecturally". It's one of the fastest-growing neighbourhoods in the US, with tall buildings full of luxury condominiums sprouting by the waterfront. The gentrification and transformation is so drastic that a visitor from twenty years ago would be completely lost. The 19C history here is an urbanist's delight (2,600 words)

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At The Conformation Show

Hannah Berger | Paris Review | 3rd September 2026 | U

Dispatch from a dog show at which purebreds compete to see "which one adhered most closely to an ancestral ideal". "The dogs also have shorter call names, but their full identifiers resemble product codes. Like people in institutionalised settings, dogs in conformation shows pass from subject to object and back again. They are family and property at once. Companion and commodity" (2,200 words)