When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
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Magen David and Me
After facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.
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You’re Just Too Good to Be True
My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Shelved: Sonny Rollins Live at Carnegie Hall
The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.
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The Caviar Con
When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build a case against them.
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Wrestling With the Ghosts In My Head
Janet Steen tries to understand the shifting causes behind a decade of mysterious migraine pain.
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O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.
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The Precarity of Everything: On Millennial (Blacks and) Blues
Reniqua Allen — the author of It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America — on Black millennials, millennial burnout, and hope in a time of uncertainty.
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Lean On
A declaration of dependence, excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new essay collection.
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Every Day I Write the Book
At 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.