A personal essay in which reporter Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.
Sari Botton
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The Friend That Got Away
A personal essay in which Beverly Donofrio looks back on a friendship she hadn’t expected to make — or to lose.
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For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It
In her introduction to National Geographic‘s “Race Issue,” Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg looks back on the ways in which the magazine’s coverage, since its inception in 1888, has participated in othering of people of color, and used racial slurs.
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Why Reading Sherman Alexie was Never Enough
In the wake of several women speaking out about being sexually harassed by Native American author Sherman Alexie, and/or having their careers derailed by him, writer Jacqueline Keeler interrogates the tokenism and minimal representation in publishing that gave Alexie so much power.
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When Financial Privilege is Mistakenly Assumed
Lilly Dancyger speaks out about her humble upbringing.
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Passing as Privileged
A personal essay in which Narratively deputy editor Lilly Dancyger writes about dealing with people’s mistaken assumptions about the economics of her upbringing. A high-school dropout who later worked her way through college and graduate school, Dancyger grew up poor — the daughter of a single mother who was a recovering heroin addict. In New […]
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Looking Back On the Last Housing Bubble From the Precipice of the Next One
A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.
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Doomed in Nashville
A personal essay in which, while on a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
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It Depends on What the Meaning of ‘Consent’ Is
Monica Lewinsky reframes her understanding of sexual consent as it applied to her relationship with Bill Clinton through the lens of the #MeToo moment.
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The Truth About Writing Fiction From Your Life
A conversation about writing novels that have roots in reality.