The Brooklyn Rail has a print circulation of 20,000 and an monthly online readership of a half-million, according to the site. It’s a nonprofit organization devoted to covering culture. It’s impressive to see that a print and news venture founded in 2000, as the first Internet boom went bust, has managed to hold on ever since.
Here’s a few posts that the Reddit community has gotten strongly behind:
In Conversation: MARY JO BANG with Adam Fitzgerald.
An interview covering a new translation of Dante’s Inferno that seeks to modernize the classic text.
A different sort of blowback.
An essay on cocaine’s importance in history, its status as a commodity and why legalization is not now politically feasible. The write draws partly from a new book on the subject, but more uses it as a springboard for his own perspective.
I was a Brooklyn townie.
The title says it all. A man who grew up in Bensonhurst 50 years ago watches the borough everyone ignored for most of his life become incredibly hip.
