Pamela Newton·May 30, 2025Meditations in an EmergencyYou are surprised by your capacity to feel happy and content — even joyful — as you watch your country fall apart around you. You are…A response icon1A response icon1
Pamela Newton·Feb 24, 2023The 9 Stages of Losing Your iPhoneSTAGE 1 — Denial: You check your pockets, your bag, the pockets in your bag. You shake out your coat and your scarf. Your phone can’t be…A response icon2A response icon2
Pamela Newton·Feb 27, 2022Outdoor Dining and the NYC Street Life RevolutionEarly on in the pandemic — like very early on, hardly more than a few days in — when I had no idea what we were all in for, I wrote a…
Pamela Newton·Jan 18, 2022Stop the Penn Station Redevelopment Project: An Open Letter to New York Governor Kathy HochulDear Governor Hochul:A response icon1A response icon1
Pamela Newton·Mar 18, 2020Some Hopeful Viral TakeawaysThe dominant feelings during this Coronapocalypse, at least for me, are existential anxiety, the hunch that the end times are nigh, and…A response icon2A response icon2
Pamela Newton·Jan 16, 2019My Year of Not Buying BooksIn December 2017, the novelist Ann Patchett wrote an op-ed in the New York Times called “My Year of No Shopping.” I read it, then my…A response icon1A response icon1
Pamela Newton·Nov 10, 2018Dear Members of the NRA,This object you worship exists for one reason: to bring death to living things and people. It’s hard for me to understand why this killing…A response icon1A response icon1
Pamela Newton·Sep 28, 2018Devil’s Triangle, IndeedSetting aside for a moment the question of whether Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth (to me, it’s obvious that she is) and the…A response icon1A response icon1
Pamela Newton·Apr 14, 2018The Trump Disaster: Why We Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Look AwayWhen you learn about the Holocaust as a post-World-War-II child, it sounds inconceivable. How can people in an otherwise civilized and…
