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.”
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality By Rebecca Schuman Feature The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
Cheese and Macaroni Do Not a Mac and Cheese Make By Ben Huberman Highlight On the complex history and triumphant ubiquity of America’s most comforting staple.
Exodus in the Ozarks By Pam Mandel Feature At a theater in Branson, Missouri, Pam Mandel finds an unexpected plot twist in a very familiar story.
What Is the Hot Commodity, Exactly? By Michelle Weber Highlight You say seaweed, I say fish, let’s call the whole harvest off. Welcome to the most interesting article on legal tensions around seaweed harvesting in Maine you’ll read all week, and maybe ever.
The Hole in My Soul By Sara Eckel Feature Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
Across the World in 80 Days By Katie Kosma Highlight People are building rockets to propel themselves miles high so they can look down and confirm the disk-shaped flatness of our planet.
How to Ruin the Scripps Spelling Bee in Four Letters: E-S-P-N By Krista Stevens Highlight At the Scripps Spelling Bee, no one asks for whom the bell tolls. It’s glaringly, if painfully obvious.
How American Women’s Pro Baseball Kept Lesbians in the Closet By Krista Stevens Highlight “Play like a man, look like a lady.” At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful love stories that the movie “A League of Their Own” chose to ignore.
An Oral History of the Muppets By Krista Stevens Highlight “He once describe Miss Piggy to me as having come from a litter of 17 pigs, but her mother only had 16 nipples. And if you don’t know that about her, I don’t know that you can really express who she is.”
Queens of Infamy: Anne Boleyn By Anne Thériault Feature In Tudor England’s big-sleeved game of thrones, winning and dying were not mutually exclusive.
The New, Improved, Empathic Sarah Silverman By Krista Stevens Highlight Formerly controversial comic Sarah Silverman is “on a campaign to neutralize her haters with a weapon more powerful than a million burns: empathy.”
Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose By Elisa Albert Feature From Elisa Albert’s acclaimed 2006 collection, the infamous short story that turned Philip Roth’s playbook inside out.
Mariah Engdahl, Age 16: The Only Gun Control Advocate in Gillette, Wyoming By Krista Stevens Highlight “Wyoming has more guns per capita than any other state, and more than 80 percent of adults in Campbell County have firearms in their homes.”
On Pointe: Reading on Ballet By Em Perper Reading List Emily Perper shares their love of dance with five great reads on ballet.
Terese Marie Mailhot on the Personal Cost of Speaking Out Against Racism By Krista Stevens Highlight Terese Marie Mailhot knows from experience that speaking out against racism can come with a cost. But it’s a cost she’s ready and willing to pay.
A Tiny Scar, From Falling By Lara B. Sharp Feature Lara B. Sharp’s efforts to gather information about what happened to her in foster care and as a ward of the state turn up nothing but incorrect records.
Politics and Prose By Marie Myung-Ok Lee Feature Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?
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