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Michael Friedrich
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Michael Friedrich is a journalist who writes about culture and cities.
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May 31, 2024
Michael Friedrich
The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City
The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?
March 15, 2024
Michael Friedrich
The Case Against YIMBYism
Why encouraging more private development won’t solve the housing crisis
February 9, 2023
Michael Friedrich
More Building Won’t Make Housing Affordable
America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.
May 3, 2022
Michael Friedrich
The Unraveling of SST Records
Jim Ruland’s book on the legendary punk label helps explain why we lack a meaningful counterculture today.
January 25, 2019
Michael Friedrich
A Vacation in the Void
Marci Vogel’s new novella, “Death and Other Holidays,” presents a meditation on grief, memory, and renewal.
August 3, 2018
Michael Friedrich
Among the Extremists on Campus
R.O. Kwon’s novel “The Incendiaries” imagines the lives of students pulled into a violent cult.
May 24, 2018
Michael Friedrich
Spirit of the Strip Mall
Sam Pink’s disaffected fiction evokes the sheer weirdness of working life.
April 9, 2018
Michael Friedrich
Men and Apparitions
Dissects A Male Feminist’s Crisis
In Lynne Tillman’s new novel, an ethnographer studies the New Man, raised in the 90s among feminists, and examines himself.
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