An excerpt from “A Trip to Tbilisi,” a 2015 work of graphic reportage from journalist, activist, and artist Victoria Lomasko’s visit to the Georgian capital. Her work, drawn live on the scene, focuses on figures on the fringes: migrants, the LGBT community, juvenile prison inmates, sex workers.
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The Unbearable Niceness of Being
On niceness in publishing, and why we should ask men to do better.
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“A Seriousness That Fails”: On the High Camp of Melania Trump
Daniel Spielberger wonders whether turning Melania Trump into a laughable, campy caricature is more than just mockery, but a way to feel a sense of control in a disempowering political climate.
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Blithe, Euphoric, Grateful, and Over
Monica Uszerowicz reflects on what living through the Holocaust does to a survivor’s relationship to food, hunger, and eating for pleasure, and how these relationships get passed on to successive generations.
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President Trump, Three Days On: The Sound and the Fury
This story in the Washington Post — based on interviews with almost a dozen senior White House officials and and Trump advisors — paints a picture of an uneasy administration trying to stay in orbit around its hyper-sensitive leader and his insider cabal.
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The First Days Inside Trump’s White House: Fury, Tumult and a Reboot
“At the center, as always, is Trump himself, whose ascent to the White House seems to have only heightened his acute sensitivity to criticism.”
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Survivor Syndrome; or, Snacking While Jewish
“Milk was served proudly, whenever we could have it, as a way to celebrate life. Someone had been so close to death and seen so much of it and then survived.”
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Where “It” Was: Rereading Stephen King’s “It” on Its 30th Anniversary
Was It really about a murderous clown, or was it about our ability to forget the horrors of the past?
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Cultural Conflicts, Embodied: On Being Transgender, and Unsure
Jason Phoebe Rusch, in a raw and honest essay in Entropy, takes readers through an experience of being transgender that’s different from most of the narratives the media focuses on.