The "Ersatz" Parenthood Finale
The relentlessly upbeat, upscale and photogenic advent of the Braverman clan minus its progenitor Zeek, propelled forward into a future of happiness was (more…)
Author: Amalia Negreponti
Amalia Negreponti has worked for years as a journalist and critic for outlets including the BBC, La Règle du Jeu, Medium, HuffPost, Ta Nea, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Athens, she emigrated to the US in 2013 and now lives in New York as a writer, researcher and strategist. She also red-teams neural networks and writes about consciousness, memory and the genesis of emotion. She is the recipient of a Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a fellowship from the French Foreign Ministry, and has participated in various policy fora about AI, national security and culture, organized by The Aspen Institute, the AJC’s Project Interchange, and Lighthaven.
Immigration story
You have been granted an immigrant visa for extraordinary achievement, you do not need to pass an interview with Immigration, the officer outside the first floor of the Department of Homeland Security (more…)
New York’s firefly days
A lambent light flickering in the sky as I emerge from the subway station on CPW and 86th. It is, peculiarly, not offset by the primal effulgence of the city that although familiar incurs a vestigial (more…)
Forgetting how to be happy
It came to me, while walking home in one of our most recent snowstorms that appear to have become sine qua non for New York. The epiphany. I was closer to Athens, Greece, than I ever had been, despite (more…)
That’s how the light gets in
To begin with, for all the evident, timeless reasons countless people from all over the world and from all walks of life have flocked to America's shores, land borders and airports: because it is (more…)