The Power in Knowing: Black Women, HIV, and the Realities of Safe Sex By Minda Honey Feature An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.
A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing With Your Father By Heather Radke Feature It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
The Cold War and its Fallout By Vincent Czyz Feature A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
Surviving Depression By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary What can you do for a loved one with depression? Sometimes presence can make all the difference in the world.
Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author By Joy Lanzendorfer Feature The most remarkable thing about Patience Worth wasn’t that she was dead. It was that all she wanted to do was write books.
Wrestling With My Father By Brian Gresko Feature Brian Gresko considers the lingering consequences when the only touches between father and son are abusive ones.
Anthony Bourdain and the Missing Piece By Ian Frisch Feature With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.
Meet the New Mormons By Sarah Scoles Feature Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Andrew O’Hagan on The Grenfell Tower Fire, One Year Later By Krista Stevens Highlight “Everyone who died that night died above the tenth floor.”
For Me, With Love and Squalor By Lauren Markham Feature After publishing her first book, Lauren Markham begins the long search for what she truly wanted after writing it.
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality By Rebecca Schuman Feature The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
Exodus in the Ozarks By Pam Mandel Feature At a theater in Branson, Missouri, Pam Mandel finds an unexpected plot twist in a very familiar story.
The Hole in My Soul By Sara Eckel Feature Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
You Are What Your Fingerprint Says You Are By Michelle Weber Highlight As passports give way to fingerprinting and retinal scans, our bodies themselves become tools to limit our free movement.
A Tiny Scar, From Falling By Lara B. Sharp Feature Lara B. Sharp’s efforts to gather information about what happened to her in foster care and as a ward of the state turn up nothing but incorrect records.
Politics and Prose By Marie Myung-Ok Lee Feature Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?
‘I Feel Closer to My Faith Than I Did Before’: Holding On to Ramadan By Danielle Jackson Highlight Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on why he still fasts during Ramadan.
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.
A True (Non-Hierarchical, Shared) Love By Mithila Phadke Feature Journalist Mithila Phadke navigates polyamory while falling in love for the first time.
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.
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.
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.
The Escapism of Bruce Springsteen By Matt Giles Commentary The appeal of Springsteen’s “Baby, we were born to run!”
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.
Forgetting the Madeleine By Frances Leech Feature A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
No Journalist Should Have to Know How to Survive in Prison By Alice Driver Feature After a recent trip to Myanmar, Alice Driver considers the ever-present dangers for journalists there and in Mexico, where she lives.
