classic journalism 
Classic Journalism: Robert Christgau, The Dean of Rock Criticism(2)
The first time I read Robert Christgau’s review, “Trying to Understand the Eagles,” I was 13 years-old, sitting on my great-grandaunt’s living room couch in Minneapolis. Originally published in Newsday in 1972 and reprinted in his first book, 1973’s Any Old Way You Choose It, the piece is essentially the reason I became a rock [...]
Classic Journalism: Joan Didion’s 74 Years of Magical Thinking
My first experience with Joan Didion began when I picked up The Year of Magical Thinking in a thrift store in Cambridge, England. It was her most recent book—published in 2005—and one of the most life-changing, perspective-altering, soul-calming pieces of literature I have ever mentally consumed. The novel is a memoir that begins with her [...]
Classic Journalism: Martha Gellhorn’s “Dachau”
In our new series on classic pieces of journalism, Emily Henry pulls Martha Gellhorn’s “Dachau” out of the chest for your reading pleasure.