Karissa Chen tries to reconstruct the moment her grandfather, at 19, left Shanghai for Taiwan on a supposed vacation—a decision that would alter his life forever.
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Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Building a World of Acceptance: A Conversation with DeRay Mckesson
Activist DeRay Mckesson says that to make this world a better place, people need to pick one thing to work on and keep at it.
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When it Takes Being Thrown to Learn How to Land
An aerialist flies off her bike on the Manhattan Bridge, altering the course of her journey.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Father of Migrants
“When it comes to the human body, everything can be trafficked. Migrants are a product in a system that breaks them down into lucrative parts, often until there is nothing left.”
Posted inProfiles & Interviews, Story
Faster Than the Speed of Sound: An Interview with Holly Maniatty
American Sign Language interpreter Holly Maniatty uses every molecule in her body and the beautiful nuances of ASL to interpret musical performances for Deaf concert patrons.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
After Marriage Equality, to Party, or to Protest?
Spenser Mestel recalls the emotionally complicated day, two years ago, when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
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Two-And-a-Half Minutes to Midnight: Our Fear of Nukes and How We Got Here
Our fear of nuclear conflict has more to do with Iron Man and Godzilla than it does Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
A Portrait of the Artist as an Undocumented Immigrant
A Mexican writer recalls undocumented life at a restaurant in New York and as a nanny in Connecticut.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Father’s Adventure Was My Terror
With the decision to take his 13-year-old daughter on a dangerous drive to Peshawar, Diana Whitney’s charismatic father became a regular fallible human in her eyes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
The Tears of Denis Johnson
The writer showed his students and friends how to remain an artist, even when one becomes a kind of cult figure.