With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.
Essays & Criticism
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story, Writing
Meet the New Mormons
Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person
In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, First Chapters, Nonfiction
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person
In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Andrew O’Hagan on The Grenfell Tower Fire, One Year Later
“Everyone who died that night died above the tenth floor.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
For Me, With Love and Squalor
After publishing her first book, Lauren Markham begins the long search for what she truly wanted after writing it.
Posted inNonfiction
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality
The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Exodus in the Ozarks
At a theater in Branson, Missouri, Pam Mandel finds an unexpected plot twist in a very familiar story.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Hole in My Soul
Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Hole in My Soul
Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.