“We, as family, got so much from their trash. I never wanted to forget that I was the janitor’s kid before I was anything else.”
February 2019
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The Lucky Ones
In sharing the story of each of her tattoos and their meaning, journalist Adriana Gallardo — who was once an undocumented immigrant from Mexico — recounts her family’s hard won-luck at life in America, a luck they earned by back-breaking janitorial work and sheer determination.
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How Do We Read in a Digital World?
Digitization has changed the way readers experience literature — and examine themselves.
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Health Care Sponcon: Where Big Pharma Meets Instagram Influencer
Health care and medical sponsored content from influencers is growing on Instagram. But is it ethical?
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Class Dismissed
When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
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Maybe What We Need Is … More Politics?
Recent books by economists who hope to “save capitalism” dismiss popular ideas as “just politics.” But why assume the popular is the enemy of the good?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Class Dismissed
When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
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Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
Twenty-five years after Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, which of his concerns now plague our digital world?
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‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out
“It really never was my shame. It was the church’s shame. They’re the ones that should have the shame for what they have done to myself and many, many other L.G.B.T. people.”