In this moving essay, Robyn Kanner reflects on achieving 90 days of sobriety at the end of 2018. After realizing that alcohol was not helping her cope with her personal sadnesses and professional disappointments and that everything wasn’t at all fine, she decided to make a change and went for a run. Seeing the beautiful […]
2019
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Highlight, Technology
Defrauding the Competition
As competitors prank each other into account suspensions, the business of reinstating Amazon Marketplace businesses is booming.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Padma Lakshmi, Scars and All
“It was only because Helmut Newton happened to find me and happened to love scars that all of a sudden everybody wanted me for their fashion shows… It took another person who had power to look at me another way, to give me permission, that that was even available to me.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Mysterious Life (and Death) of Africa’s Oldest Trees
Baobab trees are as integral a part of the Botswana ecosytem as they are a part of local culture. Unfortunately, the scientists who discovered that ancient baobabs are dying have no clear explanation why.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted
“Sometimes, I’ll read a novel written by a man in which a woman walks home alone, late at night, in America, without having a single thought about her physical safety, and it’s so implausible that I’ll put the book down.”
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists
Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Story
Land Not Theirs
Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
Posted inEditor's Pick
In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure
In this personal essay, Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
On the Books We Choose and Those We Don’t
“All the people you could have been had you chosen differently—they haunt the bookstore alongside the person you became and could still become.”
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On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)
“Are books to us as leaves are to trees, feeding us while we hold them, then decomposing and feeding us again after we’ve let them go?”