Kyle Paoletta

Kyle Paoletta is the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest, which will be published by Pantheon in January 2025. He is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Exit Through the Novelty Exhibition

Kyle Paoletta

January 4, 2019

Novelty exhibitions are onanistic celebrations of their subjects, and they're all the rage in the art world.

pop art image of a stack of televisions and a man watching intently

Party Monsters

Kyle Paoletta

November 4, 2018

Issue no. 42

Our most prominent television critics seem solely interested in defining the best and the greatest.

Condo-Maximum

Kyle Paoletta

March 8, 2018

What's going on with bland, shoddy architecture in the wake of urban repopulation?

Élite Politesse

Kyle Paoletta

August 23, 2017

When, in 2012, the copy editor Mary Norris took to The New Yorker’s website to defend its comma usage against the charge that it was “nutty,” a new era in the history of the magazine’s style was inaugurated. Norris was suddenly impossible to escape, extemporizing on ...