In the End, It’s All Just the Stories We Tell By Michelle Weber Highlight Diana Arterian’s sad, lyrical essay on the legacy of the Armenian Genocide in the diaspora centers on a family story that everyone has heard — but that no one knows the truth of.
Life After Life: Offering Dignity to Fellow Prisoners Through Hospice Care By Krista Stevens Highlight On the lowest paid, but perhaps most rewarding job at The California Medical Facility — a medium-security prison in Vacaville, CA.
Will Big Pharma Help Save Some of the Oldest Marine Life on Earth? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.
Man vs. Gig: Doug Schifter’s Last Stand By Michelle Weber Highlight An important look at a dysfunctional industry, and a master class in profile writing.
A Family’s Pear Pie Tradition Binds Them Together By Danielle Jackson Highlight A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.
The Healing Crystal Community Needs to Confront Its Connection to Dubious Mining Operations By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Maybe healing your body and Mother Earth with crystals extracted by environmentally dubious means isn’t the best approach to healing.
Great News Everyone, We’ll Never Have Shared Food Experiences Ever Again By Michelle Weber Highlight To every man and woman their own Dorito.
The Painful Resilience of Hope By Michelle Weber Highlight How do you bring yourself to plan for a baby after three miscarriages in a row?
A True (Non-Hierarchical, Shared) Love By Mithila Phadke Feature Journalist Mithila Phadke navigates polyamory while falling in love for the first time.
Why Psilocybin and LSD Don’t Deserve Their Bad Rap By Krista Stevens Highlight A survey of recent reads says that psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and LSD are not only enjoying a renaissance — they might actually be helpful to humans.
Turning Love and Grief into Outsider Art By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.
Blame It All on Tibbles: The Case for Keeping Fifi Indoors By Krista Stevens Highlight At Smithsonian Magazine, Rachel E. Gross explores why keeping your pet cat inside is for the birds.
Is Conservative Life Behind the ‘Orange Curtain’ at an End? By Michelle Legro Highlight Democrats can flip Orange County, California, from red to blue, as long as they don’t mess it up.
The “Maddening Labyrinth” Aging NFL Players Face for Dementia Compensation By Krista Stevens Highlight George Andrie’s daughter, Mary Brooks, is speaking out against the NFL’s slipshod settlement claims process.
The Man Who Painted the Cover of Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ Album Didn’t Get Paid What It’s Worth By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Artists are always getting screwed, even by other artists.
Zadie Smith on the Work and Influences of Deana Lawson By Danielle Jackson Highlight Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.
A Motherless Daughter, Mothering By Ashley Abramson Feature An unexpected pregnancy not long after her troubled mother’s passing forces Ashley Abramson to navigate a kind of dual citizenship she couldn’t have anticipated.
But What Will Your Parents Think? By Morgan Jerkins Feature Morgan Jerkins tackles the time-worn question of how far is too far to go in revealing yourself in first-person writing.
My Puppy, Myself By Sari Botton Highlight Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.
Desperately Seeking Company: Male, Age 85, Up for Adoption By Krista Stevens Highlight One elderly man’s attempt to combat crushing loneliness.
A Remarkable Child By Daniel Rafinejad Feature My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
But a Novel Will Never Love You Like Your Children Do By Krista Stevens Highlight Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.
O, Small-bany! Part 1: Spring By Elisa Albert Feature A bygone spring: notes from an adopted hometown.
You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It By Michelle Weber Highlight Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.
Of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs By Jenny Aurthur Feature After suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.
The Startup Stampede to Warby Parker Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Venture capitalists are helping launch a number of direct to consumer startups, or DTCs. But do sofas, toothbrushes, and suitcases need the Warby Parker business model?
Tangled in the Infinite War By Michelle Weber Highlight Superheroes they used to stick up for the underdog and punch a lot of Nazis. Now, they fight villains who look a lot like themselves. Who are the baddies now?
How the Not Knowing is the Hardest Part By Krista Stevens Highlight The last time she saw her husband, he was being interrogated by Syrian government officials.
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