An obsession with an orphaned sea otter helps Marlene Adelstein process her grief over her Alzheimers-afflicted mom.
Story
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How Much is Too Much to Save a Dying Cat?
A series of losses prompts s.e. smith to wonder why, if it’s inevitable, we tend to view death as failure.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The RNC, Revisited
Last year, when Jared Yates Sexton went to Cleveland, the ugliness he saw there was a harbinger of much to come.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How to Replace a Ghost
En route to a wedding, Alana Massey is haunted by the ghosts of relationships past.
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The Itch and the Touch
Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.
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Language Acquisition
Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
“No Fatties”: When Health Care Hurts
A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that chalks every health issue up to weight.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
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The Ghosts of the Tsunami
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami killed thousands in Japan. Those left behind were haunted by the dead, and some were possessed by them.
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We’re All Mad Here: Weinstein, Women, and the Language of Lunacy
“He has demons.” The language of madness is the last resort for a society that can no longer deny the evidence of structural oppression and violence.