Matthew Wills
Wills is a contributing writer and reporter for the Brooklyn Rail.
Outer Borough
By Matthew WillsWondering what the Fresh Kills landfill might be like in a century?
The View Across The River
By Matthew WillsThe last thing to be privatized will be our imaginations.
A Work in Progress
By Matthew WillsBecause one of our Founding Theorists called New York City “a cloacina of all the depravities of human nature,” any discussion of the nature of cities should begin with the enemies of the metropolitan. New York, that hurly-burly port whose streets were mired with shit, loose pigs, prostitutes, and foreigners (by 1640, 18 different languages were spoken here), clearly didn’t fit into the grand Jeffersonian plan.
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