Essays by

Jake Bittle

Hudson Yards

The Hudson Yards development in New York City, which opens to the public this month, is the largest private real-estate project in the history of […]

Muellerisms

The following is a collection of statements published in the New York Times about Robert S. Mueller, from 2001 to today.

Pure Madness

It took me weeks of wandering through fields of garbage and government-issued apartment blocks to discover what anyone who has ever sought “Joyce’s Dublin” or “Dickens’s London” will quickly discover: authors—especially dead authors—make poor tour guides.

Fear and Loathing

I attended Donald Trump’s failed rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a mole, hoping I could slip in unnoticed among his thousands of supporters and get a look at the inner workings of a movement whose size and intensity has become a source of international fascination.

Good Country People

If there is one thing Northerners think they understand, it’s the South. The temptation, at least as old as Aesop’s “The Town Mouse and the […]

Paper Chasing

In Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady, a hapless suitor named Ned Rosier courts the innocent Pansy Osmond. Rosier is best known as […]