We Could Fell a Redwood Forest With This Anger By Michelle Weber Highlight Sometimes, the only way to vent your rage so you can be a useful member of society is with an axe.
Consider Who Can Afford the Oyster By Michelle Weber Highlight If the personal is political, then food is political — and food writing should be, too.
The Chance of a Lifetime By Krista Stevens Highlight If you had one chance at the adventure of a lifetime, would you go despite the dangers?
The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write By Sari Botton Highlight Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
Help Us Fund More Original Essays (and Great Art to Go with Them) By Sari Botton Highlight Member contributions help us to amplify diverse voices and give chances to new writers.
Maybe Beauty Doesn’t Have to Mean Pain By Michelle Weber Highlight Little girls flock to ballet classes, but the art isn’t kind to their bodies, autonomy, or sense of self. What has to change?
‘Do you like scary movies?’ By Michelle Weber Highlight We voluntarily watch horror movies, despite the very real fight-or-flight physical reactions they provoke. Why?
The Trans Parent Whose Journey Inspired a Television Show By Sari Botton Highlight Her father’s gender transition was the impetus behind Jill Soloway’s show.
Filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ Adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” By Danielle Jackson Highlight “I think when I found film,” he said, “I found a way — I still hide a bit — but a way to not hide as much. I felt like I could put these things into the work because it’s the movie. It’s not me.”
Lady Gaga, Celeb Profiles, and the Third Remake of “A Star is Born” By Danielle Jackson Highlight Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga and dives deep into the mystique and mythology of “A Star is Born.”
Of Politics and Prose By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.
The Art of the Pan By Sari Botton Highlight Sarah Miller recalls her days in the ’90s as a fickle movie critic.
The Meaning of “Aquemini” By Danielle Jackson Highlight OutKast’s masterful 1998 album “Aquemini” defined a bold and Black South and predicted today’s pop music landscape.
25 Years of Vibe Magazine By Danielle Jackson Highlight From its first issue in 1993, Vibe magazine reflected the “multicultural mainstream.”
It’s Time to Stop Painting Joyce Maynard as an ‘Oversharer’ Already By Sari Botton Highlight In the #metoo era, there’s no excuse for continuing to deride women like Maynard who speak out about their experiences with men who had much more power.
We’re Fat, Not Stupid By Michelle Weber Highlight Oh, did you think we didn’t realize that we’re fat? We’re all set, thanks, because the world never lets us forget it.
Mind Your Mindfulness — You’re Playing Right Into Their Hands By Michelle Weber Highlight Is “mindfulness” not the cure for anxiety we thought it was? Dang, neoliberalism wrecks everything.
An Accident Compounded By Injustice By Michelle Weber Highlight Wendell Lindsey, convicted of murdering his 10-year-old daughter in a fake drowning, has consistently maintained his innocence — and there’s a lot to suggest he’s telling the truth.
After the US Open, a History of Racial Caricature By Danielle Jackson Highlight In the wake of an Australian cartoon about the U.S. Open historian Brooke Newman traces a history of racial caricature.
The Myth of the Singular Voice By Danielle Jackson Highlight Ahistorical narratives of racial uplift and singular heroes deny complexity and are devoid of real politics.
Facebook Isn’t the Same as “The Internet” Except When It Is By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens when a tool created by a bunch of developers in California becomes the main news source of a country 7,000 miles away? Nothing good.
Do You Want to Know a Secret: The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney By Krista Stevens Highlight “Imagine realizing one day that you’re a Beatle. Think about how you might decide to handle that for the next 50, 60, 70 years.”
A Mystery Shrouded in an Enigma Wrapped in a Snazzy Tie and Smothered in Inherited Wealth By Michelle Weber Highlight Who is Tucker Carlson?
Let Them Eat Pancakes By Michelle Weber Highlight Employer loyalty is nice, but people can’t actually their pay bills with it.
Florida, White Privilege, and Racism By Krista Stevens Highlight My origin story—as a son, and later a father and a husband; as a citizen, a racist— has always begun in a crumpled car at the side of the highway. May 30, 1982.
The Columbine Generation Isn’t Going to Take it Anymore By Krista Stevens Highlight The Parkland survivors are teaming up with urban youth dedicated to ending gun violence, united by Dr. Martin Luther King’s six principles of nonviolence.
SuperShe Island: Where Finding Your Inner Light is Priceless By Krista Stevens Highlight Apparently there is no shortage of women who want to apply to pay $5000 to find their inner light.
‘Mami’s biggest lesson’: On Storytelling and the Weight of Words By Danielle Jackson Highlight The author learned how to tell stories from her psychic mother.
Take Two $275 Herbal Supplements and Don’t Call Me in the Morning By Michelle Weber Highlight Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.
