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A suicide survivor, the five-figure medical debt that followed her out of the hospital, and her own experience in patient care and hospital billing. What costs are actually necessary?

In November 2015, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a change to the Mormon Handbook that would force LBGTQ members to choose between their religion and their sexuality: Those in “same-gender marriages or similar relationships” were now considered apostates. O’Neil tells the story of Garett Smith and Kyle Cranney, a […]

“Station Eleven” author Emily St. John Mandel on an interminable book tour, starting a family, and coming to terms with an adopted country that has guns — lots of guns. “That day there were two school shootings, in different states. That night I lay awake in Room 627 while the baby fluttered and kicked. Please […]

Clark weaves the story of Ardelia Ali’s 1995 rape—one of 11,431 Detroit cases in which the rape kit had been left untested—into a profile of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who took on the testing of those kits and the prosecution of perpetrators as a personal mission. Worthy, both the first woman and first African […]

Legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died this weekend. In this 2002 article for the Times, Cunningham writes about how he got his career started.

You will read about the queer and trans people in the American prison system. You will learn about their relationships, their mistreatment and some of their needs. You will read about the exclusive language of sex education and healthcare, particularly menstruation. You’ll read the stories of contemporary playwrights, musicians, political commentators and others as they reminisce […]

Through food and memory, a newlywed American woman finally connects with her Chinese mother-in-law.

Rufi Thorpe reframes the choice between motherhood and making great art. She synthesizes the words of great women authors, their critics, and examples from her own life as a novelist, wife and mother of two young children.

Bauer goes undercover as a private prison guard to investigate the inner workings of a for-profit prison in Winnfield, Louisiana run by the Corrections Corporation of America. He witnesses multiple stabbings, prisoners denied adequate care, and becomes unsettled by the way the job changes his behavior.

Adventures in preparing recipes from the cookbooks of “domestic goddesses” Gwyneth Paltrow and Chrissy Teigen.