“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation” By Michelle Weber Highlight Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
The Red Zone: A Love Story By Chloe Caldwell Feature A severe form of PMS puts Chloe Caldwell’s new relationship to the test.
Peter Thiel Makes Sure His Kids Are All Right By Michelle Legro Commentary Why the libertarian billionaire keeps tabs on the magazine he founded at Stanford 30 years ago.
How We Write About the Nazis Next Door By Catherine Cusick Highlight The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.
Teju Cole Delights in Sentence Fragments By Krista Stevens Highlight “For me it’s about recognizing that great art comes in all kinds of forms.”
Will Podcasts and Video Journalism Make Our Syntax Less Rich? By Ben Huberman Highlight The days of the long, sinuous, multi-clause sentence might be numbered.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Monster By Michelle Weber Highlight Does art exist in the world of personality and petty grievance and predation, or does it float in a morally-neutral ether? Depends who you ask.
Ushering My Father to a (Mostly) Good Death By Karen Brown Feature Karen Brown recalls conspiring with her father in his final weeks to find some humor in the pain.
Giving Thanks, Silently By Sari Botton Highlight Nina Coomes recalls her family’s Thanksgiving vows of silence at a Catholic retreat center in Illinois.
Observe the Bumbler’s One Weakness By Michelle Weber Highlight Bumbles sink. (Hopefully.) On men, sexual violence, and feigned ignorance.
How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore By Sarah Bregel Feature Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard?
Bronx Rapper Cardi B Became a Pop Sensation, But Will She Make it Last? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Understanding what the rapper means to her audience, beyond the flash of celebrity.
Parenting Class Dropout By Paulette Kamenecka Feature During her high-risk pregnancy, driven by a longing for normalcy, Paulette Kamenecka tried out a class for parents-to-be.
Brit Bennett Reflects on Living the Past Year in “Trump Time” By Danielle Jackson Highlight How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”
The Memoirist’s Dilemma By Sari Botton Highlight Fourteen years after her memoir about about her father’s death was released, novelist Aminatta Forna still deals with after-effects, both good and bad.
In Service of the Slender Man: When Teen Girls Become Murderous By Krista Stevens Highlight Alex Mar on how and why teen-girl duos become murderous.
Your Own Personal Jesus-Lite By Michelle Weber Highlight Elizabeth Harper traveled to Bonito, Italy to visit Zio Vincenzo. Long-lost relative? No, miracle-working mummified corpse of a nameless Neapolitan.
Finally Seeing the Forest for the Trees By Maura Kelly Feature After a spate of trauma and loss, Maura Kelly retreats to the Hudson Valley where she is converted into a ‘nature person.’
Money For Nothing: It Might Set Your Kids Free By Krista Stevens Highlight A new study reveals a basic income keeps kids in school longer and reduces their participation in crime.
Kevin Young Is Ready to Engage the Public with Poetry By Danielle Jackson Highlight The new poetry editor of the New Yorker says that to find poetry, “you have to look in your backyard.”
L.A.’s Underground Museum is a Vital Hub of Contemporary Black Culture By Danielle Jackson Highlight The space has become a vital convening point for creatives, culture workers, and audiences interested in ideas of black excellence.
Misogyny, Translated By Ben Huberman Highlight The first woman translator of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ subtly unpacks the politics of the poem — and of the male translators that preceded her.
Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake By Ashley Abramson Feature A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
The Big Black Market for Spare Human Body Parts By Krista Stevens Highlight Beware, should you donate your body to science in the US. Lightly regulated, the industry is ripe for fraudsters trying to make a buck on your personage.
In the Wake of Weinstein and #MeToo, Why Does R. Kelly Still Have an Audience? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.
Parsing Her Identity With A Long-Lost Folder, Plus the Internet By Sari Botton Highlight A.M. Homes wrestles with her ambivalence toward learning more about her birth parents and the circumstances of her adoption.
Wherever You Go, There You Are. Charles Manson is There, Too. By Michelle Weber Highlight Do we carry pieces of our younger selves with us, even as we grow and change?
When Life Imitates Country Music By Michelle Weber Highlight “The trills in his notes sputter and lift. He sounds like an animal in trouble. Like a lounge singer who’s lost his mind.”
Cast by Chronic Illness Into a Limiting Role By Maris Kreizman Feature Maris Kreizman dreamed of attending performing arts camp, but she ended up homesick at diabetes camp instead.
Chasing Down a Child Genius in Montana By Michelle Legro Highlight Promethea’s education was the most important thing in her mother’s life. Then a mysterious benefactor made it his business as well.
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