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Jonathan Clarke

Jonathan Clarke is a lawyer and critic living in Brooklyn.

William Langewiesche and "Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight"

William Langewiesche and “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”

William Langewiesche is known to readers of The Atlantic and Vanity Fair‎ as a kind of Jack London figure, a writer of sturdy, authoritative tales of modern life at the…

February 13, 2018

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 99: Renata Adler and ‘Reckless Disregard’

Complex litigation of the kind typically handled by large corporate law firms contains no shortage of absurdities; indeed, absurdity can sometimes seem to be its basic condition, despite the sobering…

December 3, 2015