For teens recovering from the Parkland shooting, performing in a production of “Spring Awakening” provides a measure of healing.
Sari Botton
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To Hug, Or Not to Hug
In this personal essay, Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.
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They Don’t Do Sadness
A feature on a teen production of the musical “Spring Awakening” in rehearsals at Barclay Performing Arts in West Boca Raton — near the city of Parkland — including some kids who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and were present during the shooting. The show, about teens in 19th century Germany discovering their sexuality, provides […]
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The Changeling
A personal essay in which How to Write an Autobiographical Novel author Alexander Chee considers how answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
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A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture
In the second installment of her series on dating while woke, Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.
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You Can’t ‘Never Forget’ the Holocaust if You Haven’t Learned About It
A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.
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A Clarifying Dose of Reality (TV)
In this personal essay, Valentina Valentini tries out for American Idol and it puts her permanently off fame-seeking.
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Rules For Departure
An excerpt from Rachel Z. Arndt’s new essay collection, Beyond Measure. While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
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Sober Gay Man Seeks…What, Exactly, He’s No Longer Sure
A personal essay in which Breaking the Ruhls author, Larry Ruhl, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse now in recovery, finds himself adrift in the age of hookup apps.
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Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
Reporter Linda Villarosa reports on the racial disparities in health care that contribute to black women being three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as their white counterparts, and black infants being more than twice as likely to die as white infants. Threaded through the piece is the story of Simone […]