An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence By Longreads Feature As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.
The Wind Sometimes Feels in Error By Luke O'Neil Feature Each year the balloon strained and strained against its cords.
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway By Eliza Margarita Bates Feature A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax By Lisa A. Phillips Feature When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.
Reading Lessons By Irina Dumitrescu Feature You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
This (Wo)Man’s Work By Soraya Roberts Feature When men devalue the labor of women like Andrea Arnold and overvalue the work of even problematic men, it’s a triple whammy that diminishes the individual woman, women in general, and the overall quality of culture.
When to Throw a Goodbye Party By Joy Notoma Feature Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.
The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women By Ann Foster Feature How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
The Offer of a Two-Night Stand, When Just One Would Do By Suzanne Roberts Feature A guide in Puerto Rico inadvertently leads Suzanne Roberts to stop collecting men as if they were souvenirs.
The Cost of Reading By Ayşegül Savaş Feature Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
My Unsexual Revolution By Diane Shipley Feature Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.
How To Embrace Professional Decline By Carolyn Wells Highlight As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55 By lisawhill Feature Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.
Holding the Pain By Amye Archer Feature Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.
The Brazilian Healer and the Patron Saint of Impossible Causes By Leigh Hopkins Feature Leigh Hopkins faces the hidden truth about the world’s most famous spiritual surgeon and the irresistible desire to find ‘the cure.’
The Burdens We Carry By Amy Scheiner Feature Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.
The Sorrowful Mysteries, or Reasons I’m No Longer Catholic By Kathleen McKitty Harris Feature Kathleen McKitty Harris recalls the series of events which led to her departure from the Church.
Two Clocks, Running Down By Colin Dickey Feature In “Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through,” T Fleischmann resists metaphor, even as they reflect on the metaphor-saturated work of Félix González-Torres.
First Contact By Longreads Feature Sarah Watts details how science fiction shaped her family, her religion, and her own self-image.
An Ode to Natasha Bedingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ By Matt Giles Feature MTV’s “The Hills” was a memorable reality show with an even more memorable theme song.
The Shames of Men By Don Kulick Feature An anthropologist on a return visit to a remote village in Papua New Guinea learns that all the village’s young men are terribly wounded.
Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion By David Gambacorta Feature Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
‘Women Created Our Worlds:’ Native Art Reclaims Its Power By Soraya Roberts Feature There’s a direct line from missing and murdered indigenous women to the repression of Native women’s contributions to art and culture, but those long-silenced voices are now making themselves heard.
How I Became ‘Rich’ By Stacy Torres Feature During a rare opportunity to vacation in Hawai’i, Stacy Torres is forced to confront her status as better off than where she came from.
School for Girls By Jasmin Aviva Sandelson Feature Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.
Bearing the Weight of My Grandfathers’ Old Clothes By Aram Mrjoian Feature In adopting outerwear worn by the men who came before him, Aram Mrjoian considers his childhood misperceptions of traditional masculinity.
The View From 5-Foot-3 (and a Half) By Soraya Roberts Feature Maybe we can’t transcend height, but can we transcend the internalized misogyny that causes us to limit ourselves and judge other women?
Time To Kill the Rabbit? By Lily Meyer Feature In two new novels, the bunnies are anything but cute. (Unless … you use magic to turn one of them into a pre-TB Keats, or a talky Tim Riggins.)
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