The Return of the Face By Adrian Daub Feature Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
Character Work By Alison Fields Feature Alison Fields remembers the perils of junior high: fitting in, standing out, and trying out.
The Meaning of “Aquemini” By Danielle Jackson Highlight OutKast’s masterful 1998 album “Aquemini” defined a bold and Black South and predicted today’s pop music landscape.
25 Years of Vibe Magazine By Danielle Jackson Highlight From its first issue in 1993, Vibe magazine reflected the “multicultural mainstream.”
At the Place Where Marketing and Art Meet, You Get This Profile of Bradley Cooper By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Bradley Cooper’s new film is ultimately about the way commerce can ruin art, which is why he won’t answer the personal questions Taffy Brodesser-Akner asked him.
‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine…’ By Nicole Chung Feature In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘All You Can Ever Know,’ transracial adoptee Nicole Chung recounts how her parents came to adopt her.
The Underground Magazine That Helped Shape Portland, Oregon By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Before Portland was a known entity, a group of volunteers and one charismatic editor published an indie arts magazine called Snipehunt. This is its story.
Home Is a Mug of Coffee By Candace Rose Rardon Feature It takes a lot of percolating to become your own person.
A Visit to Opioid Country By Aaron Thier Feature Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.
Still Celebrating the Greatest Day in Hip-Hop By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On one summer day in 1998, XXL magazine gathered 177 hip-hop artists for one of the greatest musical photographs of all time: A Great Day in Hip-Hop.
It’s Time to Stop Painting Joyce Maynard as an ‘Oversharer’ Already By Sari Botton Highlight In the #metoo era, there’s no excuse for continuing to deride women like Maynard who speak out about their experiences with men who had much more power.
A Birth Plan for Dying By Hanna Neuschwander Feature Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
Disney World: A Surprisingly Good Place to Grieve By Krista Stevens Highlight “To my surprise, Disney World was not a difficult place to be while in mourning. To me it didn’t feel like an escape from grief, so much as a continued break from unendurable real life.”
We’re Fat, Not Stupid By Michelle Weber Highlight Oh, did you think we didn’t realize that we’re fat? We’re all set, thanks, because the world never lets us forget it.
The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing our Money Secrets By Vanessa Golenia Feature Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.
Auto-Tune: The Music Fad That Keeps on Giving By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cultural critic Simon Reynolds looks at 20 years of Auto-Tune.
Mind Your Mindfulness — You’re Playing Right Into Their Hands By Michelle Weber Highlight Is “mindfulness” not the cure for anxiety we thought it was? Dang, neoliberalism wrecks everything.
‘The Very Top Guy in the Stasi was Personally Involved in Figuring Out How to Destroy Punk.’ By Will Hermes Feature Author Tim Mohr talks about East Germany’s dissident punk rock scene, and its role in bringing down the Berlin Wall in 1989 — the story behind his remarkable new book, ‘Burning Down The Haus.’
How MS-13 Targeted Latino Youths for Execution on Long Island By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘Too often, Suffolk detectives acknowledge, police have stereotyped young immigrants as gang members and minimized violence against them as “misdemeanor murder.”’
Finding Comfort in Small Spaces By Jessica Gross Feature Jessica Gross considers her preference for certain types of confinement.
A Prescription for Forgetting By Diane Mehta Feature Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
Rob Delaney and His Son’s Cancer By Katie Kosma Highlight Actor and writer Rob Delaney shares his family’s experience with every parent’s nightmare: a very sick child.
Building a Life in Someone Else’s Ghost Town By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cisco, Utah can’t be a ghost town, because Eileen Muza lives there, but people sure treat it that way.
How the Chinese Government is Eradicating a Species and a Way of Life By Krista Stevens Highlight How the Chinese government has turned a herding minority into performers for tourists.
Living in a Tree House: Sybil Rosen Remembers Blaze Foley By Krista Stevens Highlight “And if I’ve learned anything from Blaze Foley, it’s that memory is like a thought: it weighs nothing. You can’t even hold it in your hand.”
Sorry, But Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
An Accident Compounded By Injustice By Michelle Weber Highlight Wendell Lindsey, convicted of murdering his 10-year-old daughter in a fake drowning, has consistently maintained his innocence — and there’s a lot to suggest he’s telling the truth.
Ten Translations of Care By Mary Wang Feature Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
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