A Clarifying Dose of Reality (TV) By Valentina Valentini Feature A try-out for American Idol put Valentina Valentini permanently off fame-seeking.
Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine By Anne Thériault Feature Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me By Steve Almond Feature Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.
The Religion No One Talks About: My Search For Answers in an Old Caribbean Faith By Sarah Betancourt Feature Writer Sarah Betancourt explores her connections to Espiritismo and Santeria.
Who Does She Think She Is? By Laurie Penny Feature The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.
You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent By Rebecca Schuman Feature A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
Growing Up Around Funeral Homes Didn’t Prepare Me for Death By Jodie Briggs Feature As the daughter of a funeral director, Jodie Briggs thought she knew all about death. Then her dad almost died.
With a Rent-Stabilized Lease, Finding the Line Between Luck and a Life Sentence By Eryn Loeb Feature Eryn Loeb recalls the tiny, decrepit tenement where she lived for a decade, and the cool aunt who passed it on to her.
My Dog is 10.3% Supermutt By Krista Stevens Highlight Because she wants to know everything about him, Kelly Conaboy DNA-tests her rescue dog, Peter Parker.
Hoffnung um jeden Preis By Lindsay Gellman Feature Privatkliniken in Deutschland verkaufen Krebspatienten Hoffnung zu Höchstpreisen — mit durchwachsenem Erfolg.
The Last Resort By Lindsay Gellman Feature Private clinics in Germany sell cancer patients hope — and mixed results — at exorbitant prices. Some, like the Hallwang Clinic, cater primarily to foreigners.
Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley By Ben Huberman Highlight A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
The Baller Women of the Billiards Tour By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
Bernadette Peters Is Not a Child By Catherine Cusick Highlight Even Bernadette Peters, as fearless and as formidable as ever, has been described for decades as cute and naïve.
Doomed in Nashville By Monica Drake Feature On a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
How Jerry and Marge Gamed the Lottery By Krista Stevens Highlight All they did was bet big. And they won, time and again.
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly By Ben Huberman Highlight On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
“My Sparkling Brain”: Dealing with Multiple Sclerosis at Age 27 By Krista Stevens Highlight Meredith White finds a way to cope with the weight of knowing she has MS.
But Where Will We Put Uncle Larry? By Krista Stevens Highlight When you bury a body, it stays in the cemetery. Cremation presents a whole new issue: where to store the deceased.
How to Write a Memoir While Grieving By Nicole Chung Feature Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.
How Much Would You Endure to Flee Persecution? By Krista Stevens Highlight Now that Europe welcomes migrants no longer, asylum seekers are making nearly impossible journeys through South America to the United States.
My Abuser’s Gender Made Me Doubt My Experience By Caroline Catlin Feature After an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.
Grief is a Jumble Word By Ken Otterbourg Feature Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss and what we remember when we try to forget.
How Black Panther Asks Us to Examine Who We Are To One Another By Rahawa Haile Feature Rahawa Haile considers how, by sliding between the real and unreal, Black Panther frees us to imagine the possibilities — and the limitations — of an Africa that does not yet exist.
The Hotel of Multiple Realities By Emily Carter Roiphe Feature While recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
A Tale of Two Vegases By Gayle Brandeis Feature Gayle Brandeis takes two trips to Sin City with her mother — one while her mother is delusional.
The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice By Ben Huberman Highlight Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.
The Great Stink By Laurie Penny Feature It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
A Finder, No Longer a Keeper By Jenny Klion Feature How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own.
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
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