We Have Always Lived in the House By Victoria Comella Feature In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
That’s All, Folks! The End of the Blockbuster Era in Alaska By Krista Stevens Highlight At the end of July, no one in Alaska will be able to “Make it a Blockbuster Night!”
Should We Really Confide in Siri? By Krista Stevens Highlight People share their feelings with Siri all the time. What’s scary is that Siri is really listening.
Muscle Memory: A Case History By Mariam I. Williams Feature While healing from a back injury, Mariam I. Williams learns to let go of the ways she has been taught to mistrust her body.
Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate By Jabeen Akhtar Feature As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
Losing the Middle Ground By Katie Kosma Highlight More families are having only two children, leaving an entire culture to fade away: middleborns.
Silence is a Lonely Country: A Prayer in Twelve Parts By Sadia Hassan Feature A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.
The Big Unsolved Mystery of Little Marjorie West By Katie Kosma Highlight The unsolved mystery of a 1938 kidnapping continues to befuddle in Pennsylvania.
My Brother Comes to Moscow By Keith Gessen Feature ‘We had had many arguments, but he was my brother; he had always been my brother.’
The Country Where Fútbol Comes First By Candace Rose Rardon Feature Uruguay, a small nation with a deep-seated passion for soccer, is the inspiration for any underdog vying to win a World Cup.
Gone Gray By Jessica Berger Gross Feature Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
Gene Therapy: God Discusses Its Future Possibilities By Katie Kosma Highlight Unraveling the potential of the double helix could render many of our current medical modalities laughable.
White Men On The Edge of a Nervous Breakdown By Katie Kosma Highlight The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.
Letters from Trenton By Thomas Swick Feature While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples By Anne Thériault Feature If you thought four (mostly) crappy husbands, vengeful Hungarian cousins, and the Black Death could cramp this queen’s style, think again.
How to Be Single By Shelly Oria Feature Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.
Author Carmen Maria Machado on the Next Phase of #MeToo By Danielle Jackson Highlight Carmen Maria Machado discusses the nuances of “benevolent sexism,” who gets to define the #MeToo movement, and how it should progress.
Twenty-five Years After Breaking Brandon Teena’s Story: An Apology By Katie Kosma Highlight Journalist Donna Minkowitz realizes 25 years later she was victim to her own internalized homophobia and ignorance on trans issues when she broke the story of Brandon Teena, subject of Boys Don’t Cry.
Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records By Krista Stevens Highlight “Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”
Mining Britain’s Recent Past to Save Our Future By Katie Kosma Highlight If the historically coal-reliant United Kingdom can come off the black stuff, can the United States?
A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead) By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.
The Cold War and its Fallout By Vincent Czyz Feature A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
Frailty, Thy Name Is Immigration Control By Katie Kosma Highlight Quoting Shakespeare isn’t new, but using it in court to fight Trump’s immigration control is.
Sex Workers vs. The Internet By Rick Paulas Feature Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.
TPS Reports All Day Long By Katie Kosma Highlight Have technological advances left many of us with jobs devoid of meaning? Are we bullshit?
Wrestling With My Father By Brian Gresko Feature Brian Gresko considers the lingering consequences when the only touches between father and son are abusive ones.
Anthony Bourdain: 1956-2018 By Krista Stevens and Michelle Weber Highlight Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.
‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case By Will Hermes Feature Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Andrew O’Hagan on The Grenfell Tower Fire, One Year Later By Krista Stevens Highlight “Everyone who died that night died above the tenth floor.”
