Stories by Ada Calhoun

A Political 'Street Fight' in Newark

How did a mayoral election in corruption-ravaged Newark, N.J., become the subject of a surprisingly suspenseful Oscar-nominated documentary?
Posted on Mar 1, 2006

To Have and Have Not

At one Ohio high school 64 girls are pregnant. A New Yorker went out there to find out why.
Posted on Sep 9, 2005

An Anti-Valentine to McSweeney's Men

A writer looks back at her doomed obsession with that eyebrow-cocked, sexless punmaster: the McSweeney's man.
Posted on Feb 14, 2005

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