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Motels

Personal History

Nabokov, Steinberg, and Me

Rereading “Lolita” and reflecting on crossing paths with two heroes on Route 66.
Photo Booth

The People Staying, and Living, in America’s Motels

Danna Singer’s pictures manage to combine the offhand intimacy of family snapshots with the dignified, staged formality of portrait painting.
Fiction

Stay Down and Take It

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Steamy Summer Reads: Spies, Sex, and a Total Eclipse

Russian spies in fiction and reality, why men should read romance novels, Annie Dillard describes a total eclipse, and a story by Sherman Alexie.
American Chronicles

The Voyeur’s Motel

Briefly Noted

Roadside America

Double Take

Vacation Tales: Route Whatever-It-Is, U.S.A.

Fiction

Indianapolis (Highway 74)

Fiction

Visitation

Found Document Dept.

The Lost Poems of Joe Dimaggio

Fiction

Gómez Palacio

Fiction

The Roads of Home

Fiction

The Toughest Indian in the World

Fiction

The Ship Ahoy

Fiction

Reset

The Talk of the Town

Simple

The Talk of the Town

Adventure

The Talk of the Town

Hotel/Motel

Fiction

How To Love America And Leave It At The Same Time

The Talk of the Town

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