Franz Nicolay’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. His first book, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar (New Press, 2016), was named a “Season’s Best Travel Book” by the New York Times.
Sept/Oct 2018
Non Fui, Fui, Non Sum, Non Curo
My parents kept a messy house. It was a comfort, the rubble of our childhoods—preschool paintings, plush fauna—in every corner and under the stairs. Nothing once ours was ever truly […]