Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.
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Edible Complex
Never eat pot chocolate on a third date, and other lessons about love.
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Bracing for the Silence of an Empty Nest
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.
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At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life
Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.
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MACHO: On Black Holes, and the Fantasies of Men
Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.
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Other Rachel Lyons
Having a fairly common name gives Rachel Lyon occasional glimpses into the lives of her doppelgangers — and the roads she has not taken.
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How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary?
Stumbling upon someone’s lost journal in a used book store leads Sophie Lucido Johnson down a path she couldn’t have expected.
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Unleashed in Paris
As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.
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Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre
Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
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They Call Her La Primera, Jai Alai’s Last Hope
Three decades ago, Becky Smith wanted to become jai alai’s first woman pro. Now the sport can’t make a comeback without her.