Lengua Tacos By Feliz Moreno Feature Feliz Moreno searches for an answer to the frequently asked question ‘Do you speak Spanish?’ during a trip to Mexico.
Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning) By Rebecca Wong Feature Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.
The Age of Forever Crises By Linda Kinstler Feature We need to learn how to talk about our irreversible mistakes. Historian Kate Brown says the first step is to resist the Chernobylization of knowledge.
What I Learned From Doing Amateur Porn By Nancy Jainchill Feature Nancy Jainchill recalls a ’70s sexcapade that helped her make (one month’s) rent, and began her exploration into women’s pleasure and sexual parity.
A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.
Mothering on the Borders By Yifat Susskind Feature Yifat Susskind stands at three of the world’s most militarized borders and reflects on what is revealed about these zones of separation and violence when we see them from the perspective of mothers.
Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie By Alison Fields Feature Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time By Matthew Salesses Feature Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.
Rewriting A Symphony In Stone By Summer Brennan Feature Summer Brennan considers the art and ritual of reinvention in the history of Notre Dame cathedral, and its witness to a Parisian millennium.
The Revolution…Without Prince By Kevin Sampsell Feature Hoping to reconnect to their love for the iconic musician, Kevin Sampsell and an old girlfriend go to hear his best known band play without him.
Notes on Citizenship By Nina Coomes Feature Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.
Edible Complex By Jen Doll Feature Never eat pot chocolate on a third date, and other lessons about love.
‘What Is Missing Is Her Soul’: Women and Art, Girls and Men By Alana Mohamed Feature In a new book, Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.
Bracing for the Silence of an Empty Nest By Michelle Cruz Gonzales Feature As her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing filling the house.
At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life By Madhushree Ghosh Feature Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.
Family Animals By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her new memoir, Grace Talusan fondly remembers the badly behaved dog that won her skeptical father’s heart.
MACHO: On Black Holes, and the Fantasies of Men By Frances Dodds Feature Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.
Other Rachel Lyons By Rachel Lyon Feature Having a fairly common name gives Rachel Lyon occasional glimpses into the lives of her doppelgangers — and the roads she has not taken.
The Unreliable Reader By Wei Tchou Feature In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.
How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary? By Sophie Lucido Johnson Feature Stumbling upon someone’s lost journal in a used book store leads Sophie Lucido Johnson down a path she couldn’t have expected.
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre By Carina del Valle Schorske Feature Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
They Call Her La Primera, Jai Alai’s Last Hope By Britni de la Cretaz Feature Three decades ago, Becky Smith wanted to become jai alai’s first woman pro. Now the sport can’t make a comeback without her.
Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs By Melissa Chadburn Feature Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards By Sara Fredman Feature What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?
The Leaves, They Never Stop Falling By Colin Dickey Feature Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.
And They Do Not Stop Until Dusk By Daisy Alioto Feature I’ve never known what it means to feel Jewish, but I still have a past — I have György Román, who painted dreams and saw nightmares.
Uncertain Ground By Grace Loh Prasad Feature Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.
Coming Home, One Word at a Time By Sharanya Deepak Feature Upon returning to India, a course in Urdu helps Sharanya Deepak embrace the rich and turbulent history of her native country.
Of Safe Words and the Sacred By Britni de la Cretaz Feature A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Barely There By Jennifer Baker Feature Jennifer Baker considers the ways in which hair removal rituals, begun in her tween years, have helped her achieve body acceptance and connect with her own desire.
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