Robert S. Boynton

Robert S. Boynton directs NYU’s Literary Reportage program. His forthcoming book, The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project, will be published by FSG in January 2016. He is the author of The New New Journalism, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s.

Books and IdeasJuly 16, 2015

The Most Eccentric New Yorkers and the Writer Who Loved Them

Joseph Mitchell and his subjects were “all freaks together.”

Robert S. Boynton
ClassDecember 7, 2006

The Plot Against Equality

Walter Benn Michaels’s The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.

Robert S. Boynton
Autobiography and MemoirJune 26, 2003

The Everything Expert

Toward the end of his memoir, My Brother’s Keeper, Amitai Etzioni recounts meeting with the political consultant Dick Morris.

Robert S. Boynton
PoliticsMay 3, 2001

Marjorie Garber, PI

A look at a new book by the author of Vested Interests.

Robert S. Boynton
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Robert S. Boynton

Books and IdeasJuly 16, 2015

The Most Eccentric New Yorkers and the Writer Who Loved Them

Joseph Mitchell and his subjects were “all freaks together.”

Robert S. Boynton

ClassDecember 7, 2006

The Plot Against Equality

Walter Benn Michaels’s The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.

Robert S. Boynton

Autobiography and MemoirJune 26, 2003

The Everything Expert

Toward the end of his memoir, My Brother’s Keeper, Amitai Etzioni recounts meeting with the political consultant Dick Morris.

Robert S. Boynton

PoliticsMay 3, 2001

Marjorie Garber, PI

A look at a new book by the author of Vested Interests.

Robert S. Boynton

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Robert S. Boynton

Books and IdeasJuly 16, 2015

Joseph Mitchell and his subjects were “all freaks together.”

ClassDecember 7, 2006

Walter Benn Michaels’s The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.

Autobiography and MemoirJune 26, 2003

Toward the end of his memoir, My Brother’s Keeper, Amitai Etzioni recounts meeting with the political consultant Dick Morris.

PoliticsMay 3, 2001

A look at a new book by the author of Vested Interests.

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