In the wake of losing both her father and her dog in the space of six months, Meghan Daum muses on different experiences of loss, grief, time and aging.
Sari Botton
Posted inEditor's Pick
Hysterical! The Body that Bleeds
As she gleefully prepares to undergo a much-needed hysterectomy, Samantha Irby recalls the mess and agony of her menstrual cycle.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret
A ranging, damning expose of unresolved sexual discrimination and harassment suits at Sterling Jewelers — and other popular jewelry chains under the Signet Jewelers Ltd. umbrella — following a two-year investigation.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Cancer Takes Away
As she goes through treatment for breast cancer, Anne Boyer considers what being sick has cost her — physically, financially and emotionally — along with the societal and environmental costs of high-priced treatments.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
An interview with filmmaker, activist and heiress Abigail Disney, in which she speaks very frankly about how inheriting a fortune can compromise one’s moral compass and corrupt the soul.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Our Words Will Save Us and Set Us Free
In the wake of having his writing career belittled, Jackson Bliss becomes an interpreter for a refugee and comes to see words, translations, and storytelling as important acts of resistance.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Barely There
In this personal essay, Jennifer Baker considers the ways in which hair removal rituals, begun in her tween years, have helped her achieve body acceptance and connect with her own desire.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A personal essay about how a BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Feminist Paradox of Cathy Guisewite
A profile of Cathy Guisewite, the Baby Boomer creator of “Cathy,” the popular comic strip widely syndicated from 1976 to 2010, and the eponymous character’s conflicting concerns.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Mortician and the Murderer
An incredible photo essay in which both the images and words tell the crazy story of imprisoned mortician David Sconce (up for parole in 2022). In the ’80s, Sconce turned his family’s California funeral home into a mass crematorium and black market body part- and organ-harvesting business.