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.
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.
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.
It’s Like This and Like That and Like What? By Rebecca Schuman Feature When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.
Captive Audience By Longreads Feature When you live alongside anything for a long time — any person, any character, any narrative structure, any screen flicker — you become a part of it and it becomes a part of you.
The Forever Nomad By Margarita Gokun Silver Feature For an immigrant, losing a home is a given, but Margarita Gokun Silver wonders if never finding one again is also part of the journey.
Chasing Drinks with Lies, and Lies with Drinks By Katie MacBride Feature Katie MacBride recalls her last days using alcohol before getting sober.
Memphis Celebrates King For #MLK50, But Still Struggles To Honor What He Worked For By Danielle Jackson Highlight Essayist Zandria F. Robinson considers the festivities of #MLK50.
You Can’t Cut Out the Pain By Michelle Weber Highlight “[E]verything has changed, but everything is exactly the same.”
Gabrielle Bellot on Reclaiming Her Womanhood By Krista Stevens Highlight In this intimate and moving essay, Gabrielle Bellot decides she needs to stop allowing others to define her.
Finding the Soundtrack to My Desert Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature In the ’90s, discovering the music of Friends of Dean Martinez helped Aaron Gilbreath stop running and appreciate life in his native Arizona.
The Apology Tour By Jonny Auping Feature Writer Jonny Auping tracks down people he’s wronged in the past to say he’s sorry.
To Hug, or Not to Hug? By Emily Meg Weinstein Feature Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.
Maybe We Can Make a Circle By Nicole Piasecki Feature Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Here is My Heart By Megan Stielstra Feature Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.
What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? By Michelle Weber Highlight In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.
Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.
Bang and Vanish By Janice Gary Feature A trip to Key West becomes an unexpected journey involving a sacred bird, a beloved dog, and the challenge of coming to terms with the nature of fate.
The Changeling By Alexander Chee Feature Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.
Coachella, Alternativo By Gabriel Thompson Feature Durante el tiempo que pasó en el Valle de Coachella, California, el periodista Gabriel Thompson exploró cómo las comunidades latinas de la región se han adaptado a una vida de miedos e incertidumbre durante la administración de Trump.
Coachella, Underground By Gabriel Thompson Feature Spending time in California’s Coachella Valley, journalist Gabriel Thompson explores how the region’s Latino communities have adjusted to a life of fear and uncertainty under a Trump administration.
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